It's the end of the financial year, so I think the effect of the economy is a trigger.
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Yasuyuki Shimizu, head of Lifelink, a group that campaigns to prevent suicide. Suicide is rising in Japan as the economic crisis bites, with more than 100 people a day taking their lives in April. (Reuters)
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jonnyboy
i'd like to suggest a link with the even greater amount of excessive overtime expected by companies at this time of year
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telecasterplayer
Clarification please! Is this accurate? 100 per day just in Japan?
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jonnyboy
if memory served me rightly the statistic is much more than 30,000 a year at the moment, so 30,000/365 averages more than 80 a day doing themselves in, so if the peak is 100 a day in april then it's easy to believe
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Altria
How many of them were accountants?
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