Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Japan is known as a country with one of the highest suicide rates amongst affluent states today when almost a million people commit suicide every year worldwide. Traditions and the Japanese culture which accepts suicide as an honorable option are factors contributing to the high suicide rates. Learn more about suicide in Japan as well as seppuku, a form of ritual suicide, and suicide techniques employed by Japanese soldiers during World War II in this book.