In 2023, 513 children took their own lives in Japan – due to problems at school.
More minors kill themselves on the 1st of September, before school is set to begin, than on any other day of the year in Japan (which has a notoriously high suicide rate anyway).
Students who tend towards absentees are “futoko”, or non-attendants. Japan has been actively struggling to find solutions for the persistence of hatred towards school that many children face.
These problems seem to be more related to bullying and social integration rather than education itself. 90% of children interviewed on the subject said they had been bullied.
A few days ago, a 17-year-old girl jumped from a building in a crowded shopping district and landed on a 32-year-old-woman. Both died.
In 2020, the same thing happened, with a 17-year-old boy jumping from the roof of a shopping center and landing on a 19-year-old girl, who he killed in the process.
The boy was posthumously charged with manslaughter, the responsibility of which was placed upon his family, but the charge was dropped shortly afterwards.
While Japan’s suicide rate is slowly decreasing among the general population, it is rising among young Japanese people.
The government has set up helplines.
Japan’s public broadcaster has launched a Twitter campaign on Twitter called “on the night of August 31″.
In 2015, the most common cause of death for people aged 10 to 19 was suicide. The year, a 13-year-old killed himself on the morning of an opening ceremony.
1 September is historically the day the largest number of children under 18 have taken their own lives.
Between 1972 and 2013, of the 18,048 children who killed themselves, on average 92 did so on 31 August, 131 on 1 September and 94 on 2 September, reports the BBC.
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