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Suicide Prevention Needs to Be a Top Japanese National Priority

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Ueno Rei  and
Nobuko Adachi
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The number of deaths by suicide in Japan on March 1, 2010 was 138. The current administration had monitored the total number of daily suicides in 2004 and 2008, but this was the highest daily total. This does not include the number of deaths by car accidents on that day. The average number of deaths due to car accidents in 2009 was 4,914, or about 13 people per a day. The suicide rate is almost ten times higher than the rate of deaths by car accidents. This article is a plea to recognize and confront this social problem.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 9 , Issue 24 , June 2011 , e3
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1 Akita prefecture and others in northern Tohoku have the highest suicide rates. The present study focuses, however on the two cities cities with the largest number of suicides.

2 Ohno, a professor in the Faculty of Business Administration at Kinki University. passed away suddenly after our interview.