Japan’s Suicides Top 30,000 for 12th Year, Police Agency Says
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More than 30,000 Japanese took their own lives in 2009, the 12th consecutive year the nation’s total has topped that mark, the National Police Agency said.
Suicides increased 1.8 percent to 32,845, with the number attributed to economic hardship up 13 percent to 8,377, the agency said in a release on its website. Real gross domestic product dropped 5.2 percent last year, the biggest decline since Japan began tracking the statistic in 1955.