According to data released by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and the National Police Agency, the number of suicides in Japan reached 20,830 in the whole year. Although 251 fewer than the previous year, more people are committing suicide due to the hardships of life caused by the epidemic.
In terms of gender, men accounted for about 70%, 13815, a decrease of 240 people compared with last year; female suicides were 7015; in terms of age, the most suicides were around 50 years old, an increase of 161 people over 2020, reaching 3306 people.
Why commit suicide?
The reasons are varied. For example, there are 3,038 people who commit suicide because of economic and life problems, of which 990 people are because life is too hard; other suicide causes include health problems (8,808 people); 2,877 people have family problems, 1,732 people have work problems, and so on.
The head of a japanese civil society organization aimed at preventing suicide said that the number of people who came to talk to each other for economic reasons increased by more than 30% this year compared with before the epidemic. The income is small and the life is bitter, so that many people have gone to the road of suicide.
A Netizen in Japan said that the number of people committing suicide because of the hardship of life is increasing, which is true, but the epidemic is not the main cause. The problem is that Japan sends too many employees. This group of people earns very little and is easily fired. If they lose their jobs, they will have no income, and they will feel inferior in their work, and when they have no money, it is easy to think of going to extremes.
The netizen said: I think Japan should face up to the problem of this dispatch, which is the main reason why the gap between the rich and the poor has widened and many people have committed suicide.