Japan Suicides
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Japan Using This Unusual Approach To Help Suicidal Youth
Authorities in central Japan are trying an unusual new approach to tackle the country's longstanding suicide problem: printing messages of support on toilet paper.
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Suicides Among Children In Japan At Record High During Pandemic: Report
Child suicides in Japan are the highest they have been in more than four decades, local media have reported, citing the country's education ministry.
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YouTuber Who Filmed Japan's 'Suicide Forest' May Have Done Something Good
New Year's Eve is an important day in Japan. It ends with the ringing of a temple bell around midnight. The bell is rung 108 times to banish the sins, mistakes and sufferings of the previous year. However, for one YouTuber, Dec. 31 may haunt him long past the new year. That was the day Logan Paul posted a video of himself walking through Aoikigahar...
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9 Beheaded By Suspected Serial Killer After Tweeting Suicidal Thoughts
The grisly beheading of nine young people lured by a suspected serial killer after tweeting suicidal thoughts has sparked debate about the use of social media in Japan, which has one of the world's highest suicide rates.
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Japan On Suicide Watch As Children Go Back To School
As Japan's schools reopened Friday after summer holidays, a day when suicides among young people spike, celebrities reached out to at-risk children and one Tokyo zoo offered refuge to nervous pupils in a bid to tackle the mental health crisis.
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Japan Travel Agent Forgets Booking, Forges Suicide Note
A Japanese travel agent who forgot to book a fleet of buses for a school trip tried to cover his tracks by forging a student's suicide note in a failed bid to get the excursion cancelled.
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Japanese boy, 11, kills himself on train tracks
An 11-year-old boy has died after throwing himself under a train in Japan, in an apparent suicide in protest at plans to close his school, police and press reports said on Friday.
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Japan Using This Unusual Approach To Help Suicidal Youth
Authorities in central Japan are trying an unusual new approach to tackle the country's longstanding suicide problem: printing messages of support on toilet paper.
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Suicides Among Children In Japan At Record High During Pandemic: Report
Child suicides in Japan are the highest they have been in more than four decades, local media have reported, citing the country's education ministry.
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YouTuber Who Filmed Japan's 'Suicide Forest' May Have Done Something Good
New Year's Eve is an important day in Japan. It ends with the ringing of a temple bell around midnight. The bell is rung 108 times to banish the sins, mistakes and sufferings of the previous year. However, for one YouTuber, Dec. 31 may haunt him long past the new year. That was the day Logan Paul posted a video of himself walking through Aoikigahar...
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9 Beheaded By Suspected Serial Killer After Tweeting Suicidal Thoughts
The grisly beheading of nine young people lured by a suspected serial killer after tweeting suicidal thoughts has sparked debate about the use of social media in Japan, which has one of the world's highest suicide rates.
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Japan On Suicide Watch As Children Go Back To School
As Japan's schools reopened Friday after summer holidays, a day when suicides among young people spike, celebrities reached out to at-risk children and one Tokyo zoo offered refuge to nervous pupils in a bid to tackle the mental health crisis.
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Japan Travel Agent Forgets Booking, Forges Suicide Note
A Japanese travel agent who forgot to book a fleet of buses for a school trip tried to cover his tracks by forging a student's suicide note in a failed bid to get the excursion cancelled.
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Japanese boy, 11, kills himself on train tracks
An 11-year-old boy has died after throwing himself under a train in Japan, in an apparent suicide in protest at plans to close his school, police and press reports said on Friday.
