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[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 38 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (3 children)

To be fair there is also the suicide rate.

Also what the fuck were they expecting, Japan to be some Christian paradise?

[–] ryan@discuss.online 24 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

First time I've actually taken the time to look it up. People talk about Japans high suicide rate but apparently it's not that much higher than the United States? So less murder, more food availability and just a slightly higher suicide rate?

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Here's another in case you didn't know. People always talk about working in Japan to be brutal and constantly work long hours the entire week.

Data says otherwise. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-work-week-by-country

[–] aramova@infosec.pub 11 points 15 hours ago

When people don't have murder, homeless, ramped theft, they need some boogie man metric for the crier to report on.

And for Japan, the marginally higher suicide rate along with low population growth are it.

Of course the low rate of Christianity as well.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 11 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Also what the fuck were they expecting, Japan to be some Christian paradise?

Portugal has entered the chat

[–] Strobelt@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Portugal would like to know Japan's location. And keep it a secret from other countries for years.

[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

They probably just saw Silence and think it's a result of the persecution of Christians back in the 1600s.

To those prepared to reply with "but that's not what it is", I'm not saying it is.