For comparison, male suicides rose almost 22% over the same time period. In October, suicides among women in Japan increased almost 83% compared to the same month the previous year. Although they represent a smaller proportion of total suicides than men, the number of women taking their own lives is increasing. The pandemic appears to have reversed that trend, and the rise in suicides has disproportionately affected women. While the reasons for Japan’s high suicide rate are complex, long working hours, school pressure, social isolation and a cultural stigma around mental health issues have all been cited as contributing factors.īut for the 10 years leading up to 2019, the number of suicides had been decreasing in Japan, falling to about 20,000 last year, according to the health ministry – the lowest number since the country’s health authorities started keeping records in 1978.
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