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U S SUICIDE

Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 12, 2013
Carpentry seminars help bring men out of isolation
One snowy Sunday morning in late February, elderly men were awkwardly driving nails into half-finished furniture under the instruction of skilled carpenters at a factory in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture.
JAPAN / Society
Feb 16, 2013
Probe details coach's abuses against boy who killed himself
Details of the brutal physical and verbal abuse an Osaka high school boy suffered at the hands of his basketball coach before committing suicide in December are revealed in a report compiled by an external panel.
EDITORIALS
Feb 4, 2013
Suicide rate in decline
The annual number of suicides in Japan has fallen below the 30,000 level for the first time in 15 years, but suicide-prevention measures should not be slackened.
EDITORIALS
Jan 29, 2013
Odd response to student's suicide
The Osaka City Board of Education is more intent on engaging in political gimmicks than on enacting meaningful reform in the wake of a student's suicide.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Jan 29, 2013
Mayor issues ultimatum over suicide
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto is prepared to resign if the municipal board of education didn't cancel special sports-major slots at a high school where a student committed suicide in December.
JAPAN
Jan 28, 2013
Bureaucrat, wife take suicide leap
The Consumer Affairs Agency's No. 3 official and his wife apparently committed suicide Sunday, jumping from their condominium in Tokyo, police said.
JAPAN / Society
Jan 28, 2013
Antibullying bill targets Web posts, punishment by teachers
Rising pressure to reduce bullying prompts the Liberal Democratic Party to draft a bill that would make corporal punishment by teachers a form of the violent phenomenon.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 23, 2013
School's special phys ed slots axed
Special slots for physical education majors will no longer be offered at Osaka's Sakuranomiya Senior High School, based on a recomendation Mayor Toru Hashimoto made after it was revealed that the captain of the school's basketball team hanged himself after he was repeatedly beaten by his coach, the city board of education said.
Reader Mail
Jan 19, 2013
Coach may be just tip of iceberg
Regarding the Jan. 12/13 Kyodo article "Osaka basketball coach tries to justify physical discipline after beaten boy's suicide": Whether the student was struck one time, 10 times or 30 times does not make any difference. People with a mind-set like this teacher's have to be kept away from pupils.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jan 19, 2013
Beating kids to create 'fighting spirit' in sport doesn't translate
In a recent interview on the Barnes & Noble Review website promoting his latest book, historian Jared Diamond mentions how treatment of the young "varies among traditional societies just as it varies among industrial societies," and gives examples of how some of the former use corporal punishment for discipline purposes while others "consider it utterly unacceptable to hit a child." Such violence, Diamond points out, is culturally determined, and when prompted he says that he has never struck his own children. "It is not a good idea," he says. "I see a lot of harm to hitting a child."
JAPAN / Society
Jan 18, 2013
Coach linked to suicide beat another student
The 47-year-old basketball coach at Osaka's Sakuranomiya Senior High School whose beating of the team's 17-year-old captain allegedly prompted the youth to kill himself last month slapped another boy the face repeatedly in 2008 during practice for a sports festival, the city board of education has revealed.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 9, 2012
'Suicide forest' skews Yamanashi's statistics
Suicides nationwide topped 30,000 last year for the 14th consecutive year, but by prefecture Yamanashi has had the worst rate for the past five years, according to statistics by the National Police Agency.
Japan Times
LIFE
Jun 26, 2011
Inside Aokigahara, Japan's 'Suicide Forest'
I am walking through Aokigahara Jukai forest, the light rapidly fading on a mid-winter afternoon, when I am stopped dead in my tracks by a blood-curdling scream. The natural reaction would be to run, but the forest floor is a maze of roots and slippery rocks and, truth be told, I am lost in this vast woodland whose name, in part, translates as "Sea of Trees."
COMMENTARY
Mar 5, 2007
To move without U.S. cues
In their talks Feb. 21, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and visiting U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney reaffirmed the "unwavering" Japan-U.S. security alliance. This raises a question: Why did Abe have to reaffirm an alliance that is said to have already benefited from the long honeymoon between former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and U.S. President George W. Bush?
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
Raising kids in Japan as a single parent? It takes a village.
Making things work as a foreign, single mother in Japan isn't easy, but these tips and tricks can help you through the hardest parts.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
In Japan, regional revitalization fails to halt population decline
Sakiyama elementary school in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, in March .Over the past decade, the government has directed efforts toward policies designed to give young people incentives to base themselves in rural areas.
Putin’s war will soon reach Russians’ tax bills
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting in St. Petersburg on Friday.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Kyotographie's strong 12th edition shines light into the margins
Yassine Alaoui Ismaili, who goes by Yoriyas, turned to photography, shooting motion while in motion himself, after an injury forced him to give up his career as a professional breakdancer.

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