Japanese ‘suicide patrol’ kept busy
Around 25 people commit suicide every year by jumping from Japan’s scenic Tojinbo cliffs. Alarmed by this statistic, local citizens have formed an organization to conduct “suicide patrols” along the seashore, to talk the would-be jumpers down. In November alone they saved six lives, according to Mainichi Shimbun. In a sign of the times, four ...
Around 25 people commit suicide every year by jumping from Japan's scenic Tojinbo cliffs. Alarmed by this statistic, local citizens have formed an organization to conduct "suicide patrols" along the seashore, to talk the would-be jumpers down. In November alone they saved six lives, according to Mainichi Shimbun.
Around 25 people commit suicide every year by jumping from Japan’s scenic Tojinbo cliffs. Alarmed by this statistic, local citizens have formed an organization to conduct “suicide patrols” along the seashore, to talk the would-be jumpers down. In November alone they saved six lives, according to Mainichi Shimbun.
In a sign of the times, four of the six were recently laid-off temporary workers.
Photo: Flickr user Simbon
Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating
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