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Its a Friday and this schoolgirl is finished for the day and is waiting for the 7.30 train home, relaxing, reading her manga. The pressures at school can be immense while students at university have it relatively easy.
Japan is infamous for its high rate of suicides. Experts in Japan were puzzled when the suicide rate jumped in 1998 from 24,391 to 32,863 - a 35 per cent rise - and the annual figure has continued to stay above 30,000. Two theories have been put forward by the media: bullying at school and netto shinju - online suicide pacts.
63Nagasaki0081w
Its a Friday and this schoolgirl is finished for the day and is waiting for the 7.30 train home, relaxing, reading her manga. The pressures at school can be immense while students at university have it relatively easy.
Japan is infamous for its high rate of suicides. Experts in Japan were puzzled when the suicide rate jumped in 1998 from 24,391 to 32,863 - a 35 per cent rise - and the annual figure has continued to stay above 30,000. Two theories have been put forward by the media: bullying at school and netto shinju - online suicide pacts.