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konnichiwa said:
numberwang said:

Not just because of war... Japan is still leading the statistics (if the statistics are really comparable in cases between suicide and accidental death)

Not that I want to defend Japan but I read that the police counts unsolved murder cases as suicides.

I don't think that unsolved murder is counted into it. From what I understand, Japanese tend to overwork themselves, stay single/live a solitary lifestyle and their insurance is lax when it comes to suicide so some will do it for benefits to family. Also their population is in the decline because of not having babies. I think all of that attributes to the high suicide rate.