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Suicide rate of Japanese children is revealed to have quadrupled to record high in 2020 nextshark.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nextshark.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
While growing up in a dysfunctional family, Satomi Takahashi used to regularly endure watching her father beat her mother. At the time, teachers and neighbors offered the young girl the help she needed to cope with her difficult home environment. Today, Takahashi, a former psychiatric nurse, is returning the favor by offering lectures around the nation on preventing child suicides. In Japan, the number of suicides used to exceed 30,000 a year but has decreased to less than that figure annually. However, the suicide rate for minors has doubled in the past 30 years. Many of these young people decided to kill themselves due to minor setbacks in their daily lives, such as reprimands from parents and issues related to schoolwork and plans after graduation. ....