Summary of our survey

The survey was answered by 72.7%,female 27.3%,male. Nationality was mostly Japanese. The age group people have answer is mostly 15- 25 and 61-65.

How high do you think the suicide rate is in Japan ? The lowest guess was 0.3% and the highest was 62%. The actual number of 2023 is 17.5%. Most people answered higher than the actual rates. 

How often do you hear about suicide ? 25% of people said every week, once every couple of month 50%, once every couple of years 12.5%, never 12.5%. We can see that most people are hearing the word suicide quite frequently in our daily lives. People usually access to news by using SNS(62.5%) , TV(37.5%), websites(37.5%), newspaper and magazines. 

How important is this issue? (using 5 star ranking style)

50 % of people answered that this issue is very serious ☆5，25％☆4, 12.5%☆3, 12.5%☆1. 

62.5% of people answered that suicide could be an option for people to choose, 25% of people said that suicide should be prevented more, 12.5% of people said that suicide should be completely prevented. 

How interested are you to learn about suicide? 

12.5 % of people answered that they are very interested ☆5，37.5％☆4, 37.5%☆3, 12.5%☆1.

People who have seen news on the media related to suicide was 72.7%. Examples are celebrities commit  suicide, mass suicide with the use of coal, train suicide. 

People thought the main cause of the suicide was stress from daily life, bullying, the feeling of emptiness, strict society, luck of social support, mental depression from work and human relationship and isolation. 

Except for one people all answered yes to the question "Do you think self-esteem and suicide rates are related? " Most people thought that people who has high self esteem will have lower possibility of dying than people who has low self esteem. Looks like confidence is a very important part of living.

How can we prevent suicide ? There were several answers to this question. If you are the person concerned  

you can make friend, you can go counseling, ask people for help. If you are the people who is around you can support them, listen to their story, creating more social support system, make the environment better (school, work place, home). There were some people who said we can't stop people who have decided to commit suicide. From all these answer we know that we should make an action fast as possible to change people's mind from stopping.  

People feel most stressful in life when they are at school, classes, work etc...    For situations, when people are annoyed, wake up early in the morning, when they can't have the things the way they want and human relationships.  

People think Men (63.6%) commit more suicide than woman(36.4%). Most people got it right ! The reason for men (men having more power could be a reason, they do not have that kind of community, pressure from work, social pressure, social issues related to jobs). The reason for woman ( mostly similar reason with men but have an image of girls doing wrist cuts, tend to overthink, pressure from work, getting isolated from society, feeling lonely).