Japanese Suicide (IN: Suicidology: Essays in Honor of Edwin S. Shneidman, edited by A A Leenaars)

The issue of suicide in Japan is reviewed as being a traditionally accepted way of solving serious problems. The author uses Dr. Shneidman’s personological and contextualist perspective to facilitate our understanding of Japanese suicide and to give insight unattainable from the usual statistical correlational studies. (44 refs.)