I may have to read that book. From the title it seems to me he probably biased the shit out of his "documentation". I also realise that Japan has an atronaumical suicide rate (note I put accidental in there, and with good reason), but comparing two countries, especially two as different as Japan and the U.S. is like, to be cliche, apples and oranges.
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