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Japan has the highest suicide rate in the world and many heavily discussed social issues related to happiness, including salarymen, hikikomori, decreased rate of marriage and childbearing....I think you might just not be tuned in there yet.


>Japan has the highest suicide rate in the world

Actually, no. From the WHO 2017 data it's #26 with a rate not that much higher than the US (15.4 vs 12.6 /100k/yr).


Interesting, looks like it's not the highest, but the Japanese government stats say the rate is much higher than that (about 19) http://www.newsweek.com/japans-suicide-rate-finally-falling-...


yeah, but do they write articles on happiness all the time?




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