Officials in Japan announced last week that the suicide rate among women in the country jumped 15 percent in 2020, and specialists believe the coronavirus outbreak played a role in the increase.
“There’s no question that the coronavirus is related to this,” Michiko Ueda, a professor at Waseda University, told the Financial Times. “What’s particularly concerning is that the largest increase is among women, which is not common in Japan.
The FT reported that the suicide rate among men remained essentially static, but 6,976 women committed suicide in 2020 compared to 6,091 in 2019.
Takanori Hirano, a sociologist in the country, told the paper that the stress during the pandemic could be playing a role as well as the risk of workers losing their jobs. Reuters reported that Tokyo’s economy suffered its worst postwar recession in the early part of 2020, and the country’s state of emergency in January “inflicted further pain on consumption.”
“There are a lot of single, unmarried women who don’t have a secure economic foundation,” Hirano said. “They are the vulnerable ones—the late-30s, early-40s generation—and there are a lot of structural factors that can’t be changed overnight.”
TRENDPOST: The WHO issued a statement on 14 May that a massive mental illness crisis will likely result from “the isolation, the fear, the uncertainty, the economic turmoil” from the extended lockdowns.
The dramatic effects of the coronavirus outbreak have had a dramatic effect on mental health across the world. USA Today reported last week that children in the U.S. “may never recover the ground they have lost in attaining critical educational milestones.”
Suicides in the U.S. are also on the rise and make for the second-leading cause of mortality of those aged 10-24. The paper reported that the Disaster Distress Helpline reported a more than 1,000 percent increase in calls from 2019 to 2020.
Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology – who conducted the study in Japan – wrote in the journal Nature Human Behavior, “Unlike normal economic circumstances, this pandemic disproportionately affects the psychological health of children, adolescents, and females (especially housewives).”
The report pointed to a jump in domestic violence and diseases’ impact on industries that have a high percentage of female workers, according to Reuters. Taro Kono, the country’s administrative and regulatory reform minister, told the news agency, “People worry about COVID-19, but a lot of people have also committed suicide because they have lost their jobs, they have lost their income, and couldn’t see the hope. We need to strike the balance between managing COVID-19 and managing the economy.”
TREND FORECAST: As we have forecast since the launching of the COVID War in February, there would be devastating social and economic fallout from the locking down of nations, states, and cities. As Gerald Celente has often said, “When people lose everything and have nothing left to lose, they lose it.”
Sadly, they lose in many ways: The loss of self-confidence. The loss of education. The loss of jobs. The loss of businesses. The loss of joy and satisfaction. The loss of dreams, aspirations, and achievement.
Absent a massive movement to raise the human spirit to much higher levels, socioeconomic conditions will continue to deteriorate and suicides, drug overdoses, crime, and violence will escalate.
We at The Trends Research Institute are doing our best to help inspire and motivate a movement to counter the globalists’ “Great Reset“ launched by the World Economic Forum with a “Greater Good/Rise to Your Highest Levels” movement for We The People.
