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Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday November 07 2018, @04:32PM   
from the alarming-statistics dept.

takyon writes:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46096626

In the fiscal year 2016/7 up to March, 250 children from elementary to high school age were recorded as having taken their own lives. The number is five more than last year, and the highest it has been since 1986.

Concerns the children had reported included family problems, worrying about their futures and bullying. But schools said the reasons behind about 140 of the deaths are unknown as the students did not leave a note. Most of those who took their lives were of high school age, where Japanese students typically study until they are aged 18.

[...] Overall suicides across Japan fell to about 21,000 in 2017, police say, down from a peak of about 34,500 in 2003.

[...] "The number of suicides of students have stayed high, and that is an alarming issue which should be tackled," education ministry official Noriaki Kitazaki said as the latest figures were released.

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• Don't read if you get offended by the truth. Don't read if you get offended by the truth. (Score: 0, Troll) by Bot on Thursday November 08 2018, @12:53AM (2 children)

  by Bot (3902) on Thursday November 08 2018, @12:53AM (#759241) Journal

  The real list of mental illnesses:
  - being french
  - being german
  - being japanese
  - being italian
  - being usian
  - being russian

  notes:
  chinese illness is a fake, they are not really into it
  niggers suffer from a strange syndrome, affecting them only when in groups.

  Prove me wrong.

  (don't be a hypocrite and complain about the use of 'nigger', when 'french' is clearly a greater insult)

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• Re:Don't read if you get offended by the truth. Re:Don't read if you get offended by the truth. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 08 2018, @03:46PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 08 2018, @03:46PM (#759395)

  The real list of mental illnesses:

  - being Bot.

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  • Re:Don't read if you get offended by the truth. (Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday November 10 2018, @05:11PM

    by Bot (3902) on Saturday November 10 2018, @05:11PM (#760393) Journal

    Thank you! one step closer to winning that Turing prize.

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