Japan is the “Ministry of Solitude”. We would also need it in Italy
Even in solitude cats don't have to suffer
Japan, like many other developed nations, has seen an alarming increase in suicides or suicide attempts over the past year during the Covid-19 lockdown. To address this crisis, the Japanese government has appointed a " Minister of Loneliness ", a position already introduced in 2018 in the United Kingdom.
The country already had very high numbers of suicides even before the pandemic, but these had been on a continuous downward trajectory for several years now, now new studies show that self-harm is "the leading cause of death in men between the ages of 20 and 44 years old and women aged 15 to 34 “.
Japanese media reports on 879 women who committed suicide during the month of October, a figure that marks a huge increase of 70% compared to the same month in 2019. Officials noted that the pandemic with its mandatory social distancing measures has had a very severe impact on the female sex.
According to the Japan Times, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga earlier this month appointed a 70-year-old veteran politician named Tetsushi Sakamoto as the new loneliness minister. He will lead an "emergency task force" to combat the ominous spike in suicides nationwide "With isolation linked to a range of social problems such as suicide, poverty and hikikomori (social inmates), the Cabinet also set up a task force that seeks to address the problem of loneliness in various ministries, including investigating its impact ",
“According to preliminary data released by the National Police Agency, 20,919 people took their own lives in 2020, an increase of 750 over the previous year and marking the first increase on an annual basis in 11 years. The increase is largely attributed to a notable increase in suicides among women and young people, ”points out a press report on the subject.
Japan also has a minister tasked with addressing Japan's steep drop in the birth rate, which has also been the subject of many disturbing reports in recent years. Many see a cause in the rise of the new industry of "electronic sex dolls", which would have had the double effect of increasing loneliness and decreasing sexual contacts between humans and therefore the possibilities of reproduction. An electronic doll always says yes, does not argue, but does not even have children.
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