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Japan's Suicide Rates Climb 16% Amid Second Wave of Pandemic
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October 2, 2020
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26:00Now PlayingJapan: The Age of Social Withdrawal
As the coronavirus pandemic plunged the world into lockdown, for many in Japan the social isolation that was imposed was nothing out of the ordinary. Why have so many in Japan become socially withdrawn - even before the pandemic?
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Around one million Japanese people live in social isolation. For many, it's because they feel out of place in Japanese society: 'It's a sense or feeling that you shouldn't be here,' says one man living in isolation. For many, withdrawal is mental anguish: 'During the time I was [a recluse] I was in physical isolation… but it felt like I experienced mental and social death.'
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