Suicides cost Japan's economy $4bn annually www.rt.com

Japanese national broadcaster NHK has calculated the potential economic loss to the country from suicides at more than $4 billion a year.
The calculation is based on 23,000 suicide victims in 2015, aged from 15 to 69 years, and had they lived and worked until their 70s.

Figures from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare show there have been more than 30,000 suicides annually since 1998.