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...Japan, where taking??one's own life has long been an honorable way to express shame, efforts are under way to lower the country's enormously high suicide rate. But after National Farm Minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka hanged himself in his apartment--he was about to face questions over a series of government scandals--Cabinet official Takanori Suzuki, citing "a kind of crisis," announced plans for an intensified battle against suicide, adding, "We will have to move quickly." Matsuoka...
...body in the gorge below, he left the village, brokenhearted. For twelve years he wandered and wondered, hoping that he had been justified. He returned at last to the scene of his crime. Her presence confronted him, mocked him, awakened him to a course he had not thought of taking???to give himself...
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