http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080619/lf_nm_life/japan_suicides_dc
TOKYO (Reuters) - Over 33,000 people took their lives in Japan last year, topping 30,000 for the tenth consecutive year despite a government campaign to reduce what is one of the highest suicide rates in the world.
A report issued by the National Police Agency on Thursday showed that 33,093 people killed themselves in Japan in 2007 -- the second-largest number on record after 34,427 in 2003 -- mostly because of debt, family problems, depression and other health issues.
There was also a leap in the number of suicides involving toxic hydrogen sulphide gas made from household detergents, a previously obscure method that is spreading rapidly as Internet messages tell victims how to produce the poison at home.
Akita prefecture in northern Japan, which has had the highest rate of suicides in the country for the last 13 years based on a separate welfare ministry survey, has been running a suicide prevention program since 2000.
"People used to say 'why do we have to use tax money to deal with suicides, when this is an individual problem?"' Akira Sato, an official at Akita prefecture, said.
"But unless the entire community understands that this is an issue, it can't be solved."
Annual cases of suicide in Akita, which has a population of around one million, peaked in 2003 at around 520 and fell to about 420 in 2007.
Gotta love those japanese people :).
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What's this from?
Quote from: Ayumu Kasuga;1340549What's this from?
Suicide club, I think.
some shitty chink movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312843/)
Awesome, i'm Totally gonna rent this.
Quote from: Ayumu Kasuga;1340552Awesome, i'm Totally gonna rent this.
It's on youtube.
Quote from: DNAClock;1340556It's on youtube.
I CARE NOT
Cool, it's your money trunch.
Btw:
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Quote from: DNAClock;1340559Cool, it's your money trunch.
Money? what the fuck is money?
I'm gonna be spending my bandwidth to rent this.
I will now masturbate in silence in respect to all of those asian schoolgirls who took their own life.
Quote from: Ayumu Kasuga;1340560Money? what the fuck is money?
I'm gonna be spending my bandwidth to rent this.
:0 omg internetz
btw2:


Japan is all about suicide, tr00 story.
I won't masturbate in silence to those plane guys, those dudes were just plain loco.
Seppuku motherfuckers
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Why should I care if japs kill themselves, it's not like they're really people.
Quote from: Jessie;1340566I won't masturbate in silence to those plane guys, those dudes were just plain loco.
Did someone say LOCO?
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Dabatto bunkergait jun jun
Nora juere-rotto pura-pura petto
Puraret dum dum
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Dabatto bunkerget tum tum
Ora poerketino bookertan tan-tan-so
Quote from: Ayumu Kasuga;1340571Did someone say LOCO?
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fuck you
NOT ENOUGH
Whatever LocoRoco's soundtrack was the best!
I see a connection to Al Queda and Japan.
Quote from: Ayumu Kasuga;1340571Did someone say LOCO?
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Bringing this to page 2
I thought one of the leading causes of suicide was low grades over there.
Bajumbo moi noi noi jecker
Dabatto bunkergait jun jun
Nora juere-rotto pura-pura petto
Puraret dum dum
Paruranoi noi noi jecker
Dabatto bunkerget tum tum
Ora poerketino bookertan tan-tan-so
they got that social sickness or whatever over there.
but 33,000 holy shit that'd be like if everyone in my city killed themselves twice a year lmao.
Quote from: RomanCollarClock;1340741I thought one of the leading causes of suicide was low grades over there.
Yes, they are total bitches with that, the son of a friend of my dad who is japanese almost kicked his son out the house for not being the first one of the class, fucking fags.
Has anyone noticed that it's always healthy, developed nations that have the highest suicide levels, why is that?
Is there something about high society that just depresses people?
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Fucking beat me to it
Quote from: Marlix Wright;1340815Has anyone noticed that it's always healthy, developed nations that have the highest suicide levels, why is that?
Is there something about high society that just depresses people?
No, it's that the under developed get AIDS or get killed by something before they can kill themselves.
I love the autoplay fitting along with the thread
Quote from: Jessie;1340563I will now masturbate in silence in respect to all of those asian schoolgirls who took their own life.
Finished.
Quote from: Tom Nook;1340827No, it's that the under developed get AIDS or get killed by something before they can kill themselves.
But many suicides are in the teen years.
Quote from: Marlix Wright;1340815Has anyone noticed that it's always healthy, developed nations that have the highest suicide levels, why is that?
Is there something about high society that just depresses people?
basic psychology: the easier things come to you, the less satisfied you are with them.
angst is relative, and most people in developed countries, where living is easy, can't or don't put things into perspective, and kill themselves over stupid fucking shit.
That's alright, there are plenty of other japanese people who can easily take their place.
In resume, its good to live in shitty places
If all the Japanese people are dying, they'll need to make more.
I'm moving to Japan.
Quote from: a fat ass j of some;1341465That has no basis in Japan.
yes it does?
Marlin was asking why suicide is more common in developed countries, and my answer is that the easier things come to you, the less satisfied you are with them.
school sure is hard for them, but they're not giving up on school, are they? they're giving up on life.
however hard the educational strife, they're hardly starving in the streets. suicide is more common in developed countries because there's no struggle for life, and thus less appreciation for it, so yes, there is a basis for it in Japan, because Japan isn't struggling to maintain a standard of living.
Quote from: i'm slurpeeclock;1342435yes it does?
Marlin was asking why suicide is more common in developed countries, and my answer is that the easier things come to you, the less satisfied you are with them.
school sure is hard for them, but they're not giving up on school, are they? they're giving up on life.
however hard the educational strife, they're hardly starving in the streets. suicide is more common in developed countries because there's no struggle for life, and thus less appreciation for it, so yes, there is a basis for it in Japan, because Japan isn't struggling to maintain a standard of living.
That's a good point. Still, considering suicide as a consequence of a psychiatric disease (depression) i'd think there are different factors on underdeveloped and developed countries. Also, some populations tend to suffer these conditions because there are genetical factors. Take for example Russia, who has the number one rate of suicide: they are not as developed as a lot other countries, part of the population is still struggling for basic needs, what would be the explanation of their high rate of suicide?
Here comes the main variable, who has more population and judging the quantity of people living in certain country how many of them commit suicide? It's not the same that half the people living in Monaco kill themselves than 30,000 people killing themselves in Japan.
amirite?
I can't understand what you're saying and tbqh I'm kind of pissed off that this is turning into a debate
all I was doing was offering a 2 sentence explanation to a simple question
here are my qualifications for doing so:
-a 15 minute lecture on suicide in a community college general psych class taken two years ago
-I did not read the text book
-I drew a dinosaur instead of taking notes
if you know better than me all you have to do is to say so and offer a better answer, but I'm not going to dick around with you excavating a point from your posts and comparing the scraps of knowledge we've picked up from wherethefuckever because it's hardly a matter of debate and if anybody actually wanted a solid answer it wouldn't be a feat to find a scholarly publication on the subject
I don't understand what is with the clock crew and trying desperately to poke holes in every remotely intellectual thing I say like I'm a walking debate machine for retards. "I don't know the answer, but IIIII'm not quite sure about your answer, and here's why: (50 paragraphs)" fuck you.
sorry.
Quote from: i'm slurpeeclock;1342435suicide is more common in developed countries because there's no struggle for life, and thus less appreciation for it
One day a man saw a butterfly shuddering on the sidewalk
locked in a seemingly hopeless struggle to free itself from
its now useless cocoon.
Feeling pity, he took a pocket knife, carefully cut away
the cocoon and set the butterfly free. To his dismay it lay
on the sidewalk, convulsed weakly for a while, and died.
A biologist later told him, "That's the worst thing you
could have done! A butterfly needs that struggle to develop
the muscles to fly. By robbing him of the struggle, you
made him too weak to live."
Quote from: Marlix Wright;1340815Has anyone noticed that it's always healthy, developed nations that have the highest suicide levels, why is that?
Is there something about high society that just depresses people?
Japan is more fucked up than the middle east, they don't have fun, they just work all the time.
Quote from: i'm slurpeeclock;1342560I can't understand what you're saying and tbqh I'm kind of pissed off that this is turning into a debate
all I was doing was offering a 2 sentence explanation to a simple question
here are my qualifications for doing so:
-a 15 minute lecture on suicide in a community college general psych class taken two years ago
-I did not read the text book
-I drew a dinosaur instead of taking notes
if you know better than me all you have to do is to say so and offer a better answer, but I'm not going to dick around with you excavating a point from your posts and comparing the scraps of knowledge we've picked up from wherethefuckever because it's hardly a matter of debate and if anybody actually wanted a solid answer it wouldn't be a feat to find a scholarly publication on the subject
I don't understand what is with the clock crew and trying desperately to poke holes in every remotely intellectual thing I say like I'm a walking debate machine for retards. "I don't know the answer, but IIIII'm not quite sure about your answer, and here's why: (50 paragraphs)" fuck you.
sorry.
Holy fucking shit, it was a comment, honey... woke up in a bad mood today?
look at how dumb you are
Quote from: i'm slurpeeclock;1342612look at how dumb you are
Chill nigga... I'm gonna take that as a yes and wait until tomorrow to give you a big clock hug.
Btw it wasn't an attack, it was a comment, something popped up in my head and I wrote it, that's it. Chiiiiiill.
look at you
just look how dumb
Quote from: i'm slurpeeclock;1342614look at you
just look how dumb
I'm looking at myself... oh im quite pretty :).
I take my leave of you
:rolleyes:
Rape's pretty kakkoii in Japan
Quote from: CD Clock;1342606Japan is more fucked up than the middle east, they don't have fun, they just work all the time.
What about the Penis Festival?
http://babibubebo.com/2008/04/07/kanamara-matsuri-festival-of-the-steel-phallus/
I blame the media blamers...
more people should off themselves we're running out of natural resources here people
Population growth: -21% (2000 - 2050 estimation)
At this rate, within two hundred years, the inhabitants of Japan will cease to exist, and we will have no one to make our video games for us. :(
Quote from: ToadClock;1343550Population growth: -21% (2000 - 2050 estimation)
At this rate, within two hundred years, the inhabitants of Japan will cease to exist, and we will have no one to make our video games for us. :(
this is not true, we will steal this industry and make the land they once inhabited a superlarge gaming development center.
Manga and shit will be banned though, if there is a god he would surely want the japanese to die for bringing that upon the world.
Quote from: ToadClock;1343550Population growth: -21% (2000 - 2050 estimation)
At this rate, within two hundred years, the inhabitants of Japan will cease to exist, and we will have no one to make our video games for us. :(
If they find out about this, they'll use it against us.
Quote from: SCSP;1343566this is not true, we will steal this industry and make the land they once inhabited a superlarge gaming development center.
Manga and shit will be banned though, if there is a god he would surely want the japanese to die for bringing that upon the world.
Japan will have been hit by the bigass earthquake and sunken before that .. T-T
holy shit it's pearclock.
A girl who left our school a year ago and has been living in Tokyo, Japan ever since came back to visit today.
I asked one of her close friends if any of the girl's friends had commited suicide in her school.
Funnily enough, her friend told me some considered and many cut themselves.
Why? Japan is way cool!
i wish other countries would kill themselves too
thats a shame because japan has some good cinema