Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan

Taylor & Francis

Suicide in Twentieth-Century JapanAuthor(s): Francesca Di Marco\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138937765, 978-1138937765\nSynopsis\nJapans suicide phenomenon has fascinated both the media and academics, although many questions and paradoxes embedded in the debate on suicide have remained unaddressed in the existing literature, including the assumption that Japan is a \""Suicide Nation\"". This tendency causes common misconceptions about the suicide phenomenon and its features.\n\nAiming to redress the situation, this book explores how the idea of suicide in Japan was shaped, reinterpreted and reinvented from the 1900s to the 1980s. Providing a timely contribution to the underexplored history of suicide, it also adds to the current heated debates on the contemporary way we organize our thoughts on life and death, health and wealth, on the value of the individual, and on gender. The book explores the genealogy and .