Depressions, ailments and debts are three major problems that push people to committing suicide in Japan. The largest number of suicides occurs among Japanese men over 40. More than 33,000 people committed suicide in the land of the rising sun in 2007, which was 2.9 percent higher than in 2006.
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Japan has been having a problem with decreasing the national suicide rate for ten years in a row. The rate still remains above the level of 30,000 deaths.
A half of self-murderers committed suicide in a state of depression, because of serious illnesses or large debts. The number of such people was the largest in Yamanashi Prefecture, which had the rate of 39 suicides per 100,000 people.
Japanese men commit suicides more frequently than Japanese women - 71 percent, many of them are unemployed – 57.4 percent. About 24,000 of self-murderers were over 40.
The Cabinet of Minister of Japan officially undertook to cut the suicide rate by 2016 by more than 20 percent (6,000 people).
The land of the rising sun leaves the majority of industrially developed countries behind in terms of the number of suicides as opposed to the population size.
The predominant view of modern medicine is that suicide is a mental health concern, associated with psychological factors such as the difficulty of coping with depression, inescapable suffering or fear, or other mental disorders and pressures. Suicide is sometimes interpreted in this framework as a "cry for help" and attention, or to express despair and the wish to escape, rather than a genuine intent to die. Most people who attempt suicide do not complete suicide on a first attempt; those who later gain a history of repetitions are significantly more at risk of eventual completion.
Studies show a high incidence of psychiatric disorders in suicide victims at the time of their death with the total figure ranging from 98% to 87.3% with mood disorders and substance abuse being the two most common. In schizophrenia suicide can be triggered by either the depression that is common with this disorder, or in response to command auditory hallucinations. Suicide among people suffering from bipolar disorder is often an impulse, which is due to the sufferer's extreme mood swings (one of the main symptoms of bipolar disorder), or also possibly an outcome of delusions occurring during an episode of mania or psychotic depression. Severe depression is considered a terminal illness due to the likelihood of suicide when left untreated.
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