I previously wrote about the suicide of newscaster Ako Kawada.
Here’s an article that goes further in depth about this particular suicide as well as some of the more issues involved and ways people can get help.
Exclusive Insight into Ako Kawada Suicide
Read it for some in depth exclusive insight into this sad situation.
The reason I put “still” in the title of this post is because lately there’s been a sort of politically correct type of trend here. People don’t like people to talk about people being elite. They say that people should not talk about education and things like that… but the reality is this – Reuters…
In an attempt to blackmail some money out of a random guy on the train a student from Konan University had his girlfriend accuse the poor guy of groping her. Fumiyuki Makita, a 24 year old senior was expelled from Konan University and arrested for false accusation. (Minor sidenote: He’s a 24 year old senior….
A student killed himself in a bathroom at school. Everyone around him seems to think it was “bullying” or ijime in Japanese, but the school will never admit it. If it’s determined that the cause is ijime, the school, teachers, guilty students, parents of the guilty students, and all the levels of school boards up…
The other day, I was perusing Craigslist, and did a search for the term “Japanese” in the job listing section. I was not particularly surprised to see that there was an ad searching for asian egg donors that came up. My first reaction to the ad was that they certainly paid for pretty models to…
Japanese singer, Hitomi, has called her own husband her greatest enemy in raising their children. She recently released a new baby clothing line in collaboration with Seven&i Holdings (the growing powerhouse behind Japan’s 7-11 convenience stores, Itoyokado malls, and much more). Hitomi’s clothing line will be called Pomipomi, and when announcing it commented that there…
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Thanks for the link through to my site. Hope people can read about this story, and that something is done to help curb these 30,000+ suicides we have each year in Japan
This is definitely an issue that needs attention. If 30,000 people died from eating Chinese made gyoza in Japan the government would pass all kinds of crazy laws. This is definitely an issue that needs to be dragged out into the open. I read recently that the majority of suicides are debt related. The rampant debt here is another issue that Japan needs to come out into the light. Thanks for bringing keeping a spotlight on it.
No problem. I’ll keep a spotlight on it as much as I can. I am not surprised the number of debt-related suicides. Going to convenience stores and using the ATMs, you notice a lot of slips from after people have withdrawn some money. Just glanced at them, but the number with under $200 in their entire account is scary.
Ako was my dear friend. I met her in the States (Michigan) while she was a exchange student. I have been blessed to know such a wonderful person. She was truely a joy to be around always open and ready to learn and take part in our culture and way of living. I miss her tremendously. I thank-you for keeping her memory alive.
Suicide is a big problem here, and Ms. Kawada’s death is a huge tragedy. She had a lot of fans and supporters here in Japan. I don’t ever remember seeing anything negative written about her before or after she passed. Japan needs to take a long hard look at why this kind of thing continues to happen before any more pretty, intelligent, positive contributors to society are lost.