Japan’s collective society and shame culture may have helped keep COVID-19 under control (relatively speaking), but there is also a grim side effect. In October 2020, more people died by suicide than the coronavirus.
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Japan’s collective society and shame culture may have helped keep COVID-19 under control (relatively speaking), but there is also a grim side effect. In October 2020, more people died by suicide than the coronavirus.