Suicide rate high in Japan
NZPA-Reuter Tokyo A total of 24,596 people, about two-fifths of them in their 40s and 50s, committed suicide in Japan last year, says the national police agency. The toll was the second highest since the end of World War Two, said a report by the agency. The total, which included 8088 women, was second only to the 25,202 suicides in 1983.
About 42 per cent of the 1984 suicides were prompted by illness, the report said. Financial and job problems were responsible for 19 per cent of the deaths, and alcoholism and mental trouble for 15 per cent.
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