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A volunteer responds an incoming call at a suicide hotline center in Tokyo. While the number of people who killed themselves in Japan marked the second-lowest level since 2019, such deaths among elementary, junior high and high school students were at their highest level since records began in 1980.
JAPAN / Society
Jan 29, 2025
Suicides among school children in Japan at highest level since 1980
The total number of people who killed themselves in the country fell for the second straight year to the second-lowest level since 2019, the health ministry said.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Apr 26, 2022
Worried sick: A journey into the anxious teenage mind
JAPAN
Apr 3, 2019
Japanese authorities say suicide of JAXA contractor was work-related
Authorities have recognized the October 2016 suicide of a man involved in satellite control operations at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency¡¯s Tsukuba Space Center as a work-related death, it was learned Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Aug 20, 2018
As summer vacations end, grass-roots movements in Japan work on counseling suicidal students and truants
The first day of September is the deadliest day for troubled young people in Japan, according to a 2015 Cabinet Office white paper.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 9, 2018
New York City votes to cap Uber and Lyft vehicle licenses amid explosive growth
The New York City Council on Wednesday agreed to cap the number of licenses for ride-hailing services such as Uber for one year, dealing a blow to the companies that have relied on the largest U.S. metro area for a major source of their revenue.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 16, 2018
Indian man dies in Japanese immigration detention center in apparent suicide
An Indian man died Friday at a Japanese immigration detention center in an apparent suicide, the latest death in a system widely criticized over medical standards, monitoring of detainees and mental health care.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Mar 13, 2018
Women farmers join ¡®long march¡¯ to Mumbai to demand land and forest rights
Thousands of women farmers marched into Mumbai alongside their male peers on Monday demanding the government recognizes their rights over forests and stops the takeover of land for industrial projects.
EDITORIALS
Nov 10, 2017
Student suicides and ¡®guidance¡¯ by teachers
The ¡®guidance death¡¯ of schoolchildren is putting the trustworthiness of schools and teachers in doubt.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
May 30, 2017
Suicides down, but Japan still second highest among major industrialized nations, report says
The nation¡¯s suicide rate is the sixth highest in the world and the second worst among eight major industrialized countries, a government report released Tuesday said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
May 9, 2017
Group will use drone to help prevent suicide at remote Fukui Prefecture site
A suicide prevention group will dispatch a drone to monitor remote areas around Tojinbo in Sakai, Fukui Prefecture ¡ª whose lonely cliffs remain romanticized in popular imagination as a destination where people go to end their lives ¡ª in the hopes that the effort will help reduce the suicide rate....
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Oct 7, 2016
1 in 4 firms in Japan say workers log over 80 overtime hours a month
The nation¡¯s first white paper on ¡°karoshi¡± finds nearly a quarter of companies have employees that are seriously overworked.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2016
¡®Pokemon Go¡¯ players deter suicides in Fukui
Another unintentional side effect of ¡°Pokemon Go¡± fever has emerged ¡ª and it¡¯s not in the form of traffic violations or accidents.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Jun 30, 2016
Facebook rolls out suicide alert system for users in Japan
The tool offers a way for those in despair to be noticed and given a sympathetic ear.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 24, 2015
Steps to reduce the number of teen suicides
How teens handle parental and peer pressure can make the difference between life and death.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
May 18, 2015
Aichi¡¯s oldest pathologist sees society in flux
The oldest police pathologist in Aichi Prefecture retired in March, after performing autopsies on more than 4,000 bodies in his 50 year career.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 4, 2015
At 1994 Argentina bomb site, deja vu and fading hope for justice
Anita Weinstein was on the second floor of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires on July 18, 1994, when the ceiling and walls collapsed from the force of a truck bomb outside.
WORLD / Society
Sep 5, 2014
WHO calls for action to reduce global suicide rate of 800,000 a year
More than 800,000 people each year worldwide commit suicide ¡ª around one person every 40 seconds ¡ª with many using poisoning, hanging or shooting to end their own lives, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2014
Fiery suicide bid shocks Shinjuku on eve of historic security decision
A man tries to commit suicide by setting himself on fire near JR Shinjuku Station after using a loud speaker to tell hundreds of people why.
Japan triples departure tax in push to combat overtourism
Tourists in Yanaka Ginza, Tokyo, on Wednesday. Japan tripled its International Tourist Tax (departure tax) to ?3,000 from ?1,000 on Wednesday for all travelers leaving Japan, regardless of nationality.
¡®My dream is broken¡¯: Japan visa rules push out foreign residents
A man orders from a kebab shop in the Okubo district in Tokyo.
More facilities in Japan placing sanitary bins in men¡¯s restrooms
A sanitary bin with an awareness sticker placed in a men's restroom in the Nagasaki Municipal Government building
Inside Japan¡¯s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
Why is the yen so weak and what can Japan do about it?
Japan spent ?11.7 trillion ($73 billion) between late April and late May to prop up the weak yen.
Six of the best: rikishi of note in each sumo division
Kazuma (right) faces off against future <i>yokozuna</i> Onosato during the All Japan Amateur Sumo Championships at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo in December 2020.
Some startups see opportunity in an aging Japan
Yasmin Baba, CTO of Amilis, wins the Grand Prize at the Pitch2Tokyo Grand Final on Feb. 19.
Japan¡¯s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Life inside Japan¡¯s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
Inside Japan¡¯s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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The Terasaka Rice Terraces are seen with Mount Buko in the background.
What Yokoze can teach Japan about rural revival
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