Suicides among Japanese young people hit 30-year high
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46096626
Child suicides in Japan are the highest they have been in more than three decades, the country's education ministry says.
In the fiscal year 2016/7 up to March, 250 children from elementary to high school age were recorded as having taken their own lives.
The number is five more than last year, and the highest it has been since 1986.
日本の18歳以下の自殺者数が1986年以降で最多を記録したとのこと。
Overall suicides across Japan fell to about 21,000 in 2017, police say, down from a peak of about 34,500 in 2003.
子供に限らない全自殺者数は2003年に34500人だったものが2017年には21000人まで減っているとのこと。