Japan suicides top 30,000 for ninth straight year
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The number of Japanese who killed themselves edged down last year but stayed above 30,000 as it has for nearly a decade, with suicides among the elderly rising to account for more than a third of the total, police said on Thursday.
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The suicide rate among preteen and teenage girls rose to its highest level in a decade, and hanging surpassed guns as the preferred method, federal health officials reported Thursday.
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About once a month since January 2002, Japan has recorded a group suicide, successful or attempted, where participants met on the Internet.
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Japanese police said on Tuesday they were  investigating a suspected group suicide involving seven people  who met through the Internet, the latest in a rash of suicides  linked to the Web.
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TOKYO : Nine people were found dead on Tuesday from carbon monoxide poisoning in rented vehicles near Tokyo in a record toll from the growing number of suicides in Japan set up through the Internet.
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The number of Japanese who have lived 100 years or more surged to a record-high 23,038 in 2004 in the world's longest-living country, the government said Tuesday.
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Nine young people were found dead in two cars outside of Tokyo, in what appeared to be related suicides thought to be arranged through the Internet.
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A suicide takes place somewhere around  the world every 40 seconds, or nearly one million a year, and  the rate looks set to surge over the next two decades,  international health experts said on Wednesday.
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A growing Japanese trend for internet-assisted group suicides claimed its largest single toll yesterday when seven people in their teens and early twenties were found dead in a car in mountains north of Tokyo.
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US Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns expressed sorrow Monday at the suicide of Japan&#39;s farm minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka, who had been embroiled in a political funding scandal.
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Six people were found dead in two deserted cars over the weekend in Japan&#39;s latest group suicides, police said Monday. A woman and two men in their 20s were found slumped over in a car parked
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Suicides among children and young  adults rose by an alarming 8 percent in 2004, the largest rise  in 15 years, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and  Prevention reported on Thursday.
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A series of earthquakes shook central Japan in Niigata prefecture, where quakes that began last month have killed more than 30 people.
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A scandal-tainted Cabinet member who headed Japan's powerful agriculture ministry hanged himself just hours before he faced questioning Monday over alleged bookkeeping fraud.
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A total of 22,493 people have been  confirmed killed in Sri Lanka by a tsunami and the number is  rising, the government said on Wednesday, forecasting the toll  could pass the 30,000 mark.
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Japan on Tuesday hanged a man convicted of stabbing to death eight elementary school children in a rampage that shocked the nation and severely shook its sense of security, media said.
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The support rate for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe&#39;s cabinet has dropped to a new low of 30 percent after his scandal-hit farm minister committed suicide, a poll showed Monday.