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Japan has the highest suicide rate in the world and many heavily discussed social issues related to happiness, including salarymen, hikikomori, decreased rate o
by jacalata 9y ago
Japan has the highest suicide rate in the world and many heavily discussed social issues related to happiness, including salarymen, hikikomori, decreased rate of marriage and childbearing....I think you might just not be tuned in there yet.
- peepopeep 9y agoyeah, but do they write articles on happiness all the time?
- tim333 9y ago>Japan has the highest suicide rate in the world Actually, no. From the WHO 2017 data it's #26 with a rate not that much higher than the US (15.4 vs 12.6 /100k/yr).
- jacalata 9y agoInteresting, looks like it's not the highest, but the Japanese government stats say the rate is much higher than that (about 19) http://www.newsweek.com/japans-suicide-rate-finally-falling-new-report-finds-617309 http://www.newsweek.com/japans-suicide-rate-finally-falling-...