In Japan, more people died from suicide last month than from Covid in all of 2020

CNN, Nov. 29, 2002:In Japan, more people died from suicide last month than from Covid in all of 2020. And women have been impacted most

Tokyo (CNN)Eriko Kobayashi has tried to kill herself four times.

The first time, she was just 22 years old with a full-time job in publishing that didn't pay enough to cover her rent and grocery bills in Tokyo. "I was really poor," said Kobayashi, who spent three days unconscious in hospital after the incident (...)

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In Japan, government statistics show suicide claimed more lives in October than Covid-19 has over the entire year to date. The monthly number of Japanese suicides rose to 2,153 in October, according to Japan's National Police Agency. As of Friday, Japan's total Covid-19 toll was 2,087, the health ministry said.(...)

In full: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/28/asia/japan-suicide-women-covid-dst-intl-hnk/index.html

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The Japan Times (Nov. 11, 2020), Japan suicides rise as economic impact of coronavirus hits home

The number of suicides in Japan rose in October for the fourth month in a row to the highest level in more than five years, data showed Tuesday, a trend activists have blamed on the economic impact of the coronavirus, on women in particular.

According to preliminary police data, the total number of suicides for October was 2,153, an increase of more than 300 from the previous month and the highest monthly tally since May 2015.

Of October’s cases, 851 were women, a rise of 82.6% over the same month in 2019. The number of suicides by men rose 21.3%.

In full: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/11/national/japan-suicide-rise-coronavirus/

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The National Academies Press, Programs for Suicide Prevention

FRAMEWORK FOR PREVENTION

The prevailing prevention model in the interdisciplinary field of prevention science is the Universal, Selective, and Indicated (USI) prevention model. This USI model focuses attention on defined populations—from everyone in the population, to specific at-risk groups, to specific high-risk individuals—i.e., three population groups for whom the designed interventions are deemed optimal for achieving the unique goals of each prevention type.(...)

Media Campaigns

A traditional universal public health approach to behavior-related problems has been widespread education through mass-media campaigns. This technique has been used with varying levels of success for smoking, AIDS, and coronary heart disease (see IOM, 2002). A few countries, including the United Kingdom and Norway, have implemented such mass-media campaigns for suicide prevention as part of overall mental health promotion; evaluations of results are not yet available. (...)

Reducing Access to Means

Universal measures can be used to reduce the availability of common tools for suicide. More restrictive legislation regarding firearms, barriers on bridges, or blister packs for medications are interventions that may be effective in reducing suicide or suicide attempts. This section focuses on the role of availability of methods of suicide, including the role that method availability and barrier restrictions may play in suicide by firearms, acetaminophen overdose, prescription drugs, jumping from buildings or bridges, domestic gas, automobile carbon monoxide, and railway suicides.(...)

 In full: https://www.nap.edu/read/10398/chapter/10#280

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