Japan is notorious for its high suicide rate among all the industrialized countries, and I believe that the answer for this phenomenon lays in the deep nature of Japanese society. According to the statistics of World Health Organization (WHO), male suicide rate is 36.5 and female suicide rate is 14.1, out of 100,000 people. Base on the statistics, we can see that female suicide is 22.4 points lower than the male suicide proportion in Japan, in 2003. I personally believe that the reason for Japan to hold high suicide is because of its social norms. For instance, it is anorm for many Japanese men in the modern society to be responsible for all of the family incomes, that is, Japanese men have to face both economical pressure and mental pressure in their home and work place, their usually established their life objective on the job that they have, however, once they are being layed off form the work, those Japanese men suddenly lose their goals and fall into the state of anomie. After being dismissed, they might still wear the same suit, same tie, and leave home at exactly same time, but end up sitting in the park alone till every body goes home. They are afraid of telling the family about the abysmal condition they have brough about, and in the end, they put a period on their life in a very miserable way, to escape fromthe reality, and pressure form society and family.
In addition, suicide are also triggered by the way society treats those people who lose their jobs, unemployed people in Japan are often being labeled as loser, and as time goes by, they are affected by the comments, and they might start to falsely judge themselves as loser as well, which made them think that they are valueless to the society, therefore, they commit suicide “for good”. Those examples are all about how norms affect our life in the society, social norms, to be specific, is invisible but has the strongest impact on our thinking and behavior. If Japanese workers can attempt to change this kind of negative norms into a positive one, I believe tragedy like suicide might be well avoided.
References:
World Health Organization. (2003, May). Suicide rate by country,year, and gender. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/suiciderates/en/
By. Yuuki Nagahara
JAPANsociology 
Hellow
I would like to ask statistical standard of sucide rate.
How to research the sucide rate in Japan.
I mean that in Korea, the researches of sucide rate are different between the National Statistical Office and the National Police Agency by each standard.
So i wander that in Japan, are there many researches of sucide rates or only one thing?
And if there are many researches of sucide rates, are they also different?
if there are only one research of sucide rate, which department research that and when start the research?
Thank you very much and sincerely looking forward to hearing from you soon!
have a good day~^^
I know japanese suicide rate is so high but I was surprised the numerical value.
But I think there are men in the modern society to be responsible for all of the family incomes in other country.
I think the reason why japanese suicide rate is high is that japanese don`t believe specific religion. The suicide rate is related with religion.In Japan, there is no grounds of idea that suicide is bad conduct. So japanese suicide rate is high.