Suicide Risk Higher for Cancer Patients: Japan Govt Survey
The risk of cancer patients committing suicide within two years of diagnosis is about 1.8 times higher than that for other people, a survey by a health ministry study group has found.
Category: Mental Health
KyoAni Arson Suspect Learned from 2001 Attack
During questioning in the sixth hearing at Kyoto District Court, Shinji Aoba, 45, facing murder and other charges, said he learned from the arson attack against a branch of consumer finance firm Takefuji Corp., which went bust later, in the city of Hirosaki in Aomori Prefecture in 2001.
Questioning of KyoAni Arson Defendant Begins
Explaining his state of mind just after the incident, Shinji Aoba, 45, facing murder and other charges, told the third hearing that he thought the police officers who came to apprehend him were public security department members because they arrived very quickly in response to the fire.
Man Indicted for Attempted Murder in Attack on PM Kishida
According to investigative sources, Kimura still remains silent during questioning. The prosecutors office in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, judged that he is capable of taking criminal responsibility, based on psychiatric evaluation conducted on the suspect for about three months until Friday.
“I now think that I went too far” Suspect in 2019 KyoAni Arson Attack Admits Charges
A man accused of carrying out a deadly arson attack on a Kyoto Animation Co. studio four years ago admitted the charges in the indictment, in the first hearing of his trial at Kyoto District Court on Tuesday.
“I didn’t imagine that so many people would lose their lives, and I now think that I went too far,” Shinji Aoba, 45, said at the outset of the lay judge trial, admitting that he carried out the attack.
Trial Starts Over 2019 KyoAni Arson Attack
The focus is what Shinji Aoba, 45, accused of murder and attempted murder, will have to say about his motive for Japan’s worst arson incident since the 1989 start of the Heisei period in terms of the number of victims.
Suspects in Sapporo ‘Headless Body Case’ to Undergo Mental Evaluation
The Sapporo District Public Prosecutors Office in the capital of
Hokkaido, northern Japan, obtained approval from Sapporo
Summary Court on Thursday to examine whether the 29-year-old
woman, her father, 59, and her mother, 60, are mentally
competent to bear criminal responsibility, the investigative
sources said.
Lawyers for the parents filed a complaint against the approval
with Sapporo District Court on Friday.
Pandemic-Linked Depression Recognized as Work-Related in Japan
Japanese labor authorities have recognized depression developed by a woman who handled COVID-19 patients at an elderly care facility in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, as work-related, a lawyer representing the woman said on Friday 18th August 2023.
The woman, in protective clothing, changed diapers for residents, served meals to them and carried the bodies of the deceased residents. While working, she had to see the faces of the deceased residents, who were wrapped in transparent bags to prevent infection, the lawyer said.
Teachers quitting for mental health reasons hit record high in Japan
A record high 953 teachers at public schools left jobs for mental health reasons in the 2021 academic year, up 171 from the previous survey in 2018, a recent poll by the education ministry showed.
Ministry officials say long working hours is one of the factors behind the rise in the number of teachers quitting jobs at public elementary schools, junior high schools and senior high schools.
Japan’s Halloween “Joker” attacker gets 23 years for Tokyo train stabbing, fire
A man who attacked passengers on a crowded Tokyo train on Halloween night in 2021 while dressed as the Joker was sentenced to 23 years in prison on Monday for stabbing one of them and lighting a fire.
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