Suicide Nation

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide."
Albert Camus










It is depressing to know lots of kids commited suicide in Japan. I was in Australia from July to November this time. I am back to Osaka, the second largest city in Japan. You might be surprised to know more than 30000 people commit suicide every year in Japan, which means 89 people kill themselves per a day. There must be lots of reasons, mainly some of them lost of their work or due to too much work. I will describe how the people in their office were droven into the mad situation later. It is a crazy story. I have some documents about it.

Year/ Total/ Male/ Female/ under 20/ 20～39/ 40～59/ over 60
1980/ 21,048/ 13,155 / 7,893/ 678/ 7,052/ 7,049/ 6,166/
1985 /23,599/ 15,624 / 7,975/ 557/ 6,067/ 9,751/ 7,143/
1990/ 21,346/ 13,102/ 8,244/ 467/ 4,769 /8,158/ 7,853 /
1995/ 22,445/ 14,874/ 7,571/ 515/ 4,976/ 9,030/ 7,739/
2000/ 31,957/ 22,727/ 9,230/ 598/ 6,986/ 13,063/ 10,997/
2001/ 31,042/ 22,144/ 8,898/ 586/ 6,717/ 12,526/ 10,891/
2002/ 32,143/ 23,080/ 9,063/ 502/ 6,953/ 13,275/ 11,119/
2003/ 34,427 /24,963/ 9,464/ 613/ 7,956/ 14,033/ 11,529/
2004/ 32,325/ 23,272/ 9,053/ 589/ 7,580/ 12,874/ 10,994/

Now, it is focused on the phenominon that Kids commit suicide. Why do they contemplate suicide? The news papers and TV report say they are suffering from bullying. It is said that the chain reaction will occur after mass media report the incident like serial killing, what is called copy cat criminal. Suicide is also the crime that hurts people around them, especially family. But suicide is also the punishment to their future. How can this be happened? I need to think radicall y and fundamentally. I will write more details.