Suicide in Japan

By the time you've finished reading this something awful will have
happened in Japan. Its really quite a horrible figure. Japan has the
highest suicide rate in per captia in the developed world. The reasons
are mixed and not only because of the traditional place of suicide as an
accepted part of Japanese culture but related to a culture sheering
because of the rapid rate of change and the clash of traditional and new
Western ideas.

If you read this quickly someone has killed themself in Japan in the
time it took to read this. If you're a slow reader 2 people will have
killed themselves by the time you reach this fullstop.