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> extremely high suicide rates This is no longer true. Look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wik

by throwaway2037 4mo ago

> extremely high suicide rates This is no longer true. Look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r... Sort by "All" and you will see Japan is #30, far below many other highly developed nations.

aprilthird2021 4mo ago
Okay, fair enough. The rest is still true. They're also very unhappy on average: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250410/p2a/00m/0na/010000c https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250410/p2a/00m/0na/01...