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I found this Irish Times article: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/families-fined-for-suicides-in-japan-1.1104002 https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/

I found this Irish Times article: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/families-fined-for-suicides-in-japan-1.1104002 https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/families-fined-for-su... as well as this 88-page study: http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=anth_honors http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art... Apparently the fee is usually around $2 million.

lomnakkus 9y ago
$2 million. Wow. I guess that would discourage anyone who's desparate enough to commit suicide (and still cares about their family) to look for other methods. I'm not quite sure why, but I somehow find it very strange that a railway company[1] can administer a "fine" to people that may never even have interacted with it. Am I alone in this? [1] Are they private entities in Japan?
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- rootsudo 9y ago
  2 Million yen, about $10-14,000 depending on exchange rate.