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.Nearly 100 People Commit Suicide Every Day in Japan.

Last year's traffic fatalities around the nation totaled 8,747, according to
the National Police Agency. This represented a decrease from the year
before, but it is a shockingly high toll all the same. Still, three times as
many people killed themselves last year.

Last year's traffic fatalities around the nation totaled 8,747, according to
the National Police Agency. This represented a decrease from the year
before, but it is a shockingly high toll all the same. Still, three times as
many people killed themselves last year.

For three years in a row until 2000, suicides topped 30,000. The figure for
2001 has yet to be compiled. Although the National Police Agency discloses
traffic fatalities for the preceding year right after New Year's Day,
suicide statistics are not made known until August.

A National Police Agency spokesman explained that investigating the cause of
death often proves to be a time-consuming process, and furthermore, there
are simply too many suicides in big cities. The spokesman hastened to add,
however, that the agency has begun to explore how best to compile the
statistics faster in the future.

Suicide is becoming a truly serious social issue in the prolonged recession.
It is difficult to empathize with the anguish of the suicides and their
bereaved families from just looking at the numbers alone. Still, the numbers
do shed some light on the circumstances that make nearly 100 people choose
to take their own lives every day.

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