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Suicide and Unemployment in Japan after the Bubble Economy and Japan's Contingency Policies
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Abstract
In the study of Japanese history, the problems of the post-bubble economy era are of great research value. In the post-bubble economy, Japan's unemployment and suicide problems have been widely concern by the international community. This paper takes the unemployment and suicide problems in the context of the bubble economy era as the core of the study and thoroughly researches the creation of suicide and unemployment problems in Japan, i.e., the government's reflection, and at the same time, analyzes the relationship between suicide and unemployment. Through a series of research and analysis, this paper concludes that Japan's bubble economy environment led to the rise of the unemployment rate, which led to many unemployed people committing suicide, and the Japanese government has made a series of policies to improve the employment rate to change the suicide problem.
Keywords
Japan History, Social Study, Suicide, Unemployment
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Zhao,C. (2025). Suicide and Unemployment in Japan after the Bubble Economy and Japan's Contingency Policies. Communications in Humanities Research,56,51-55.
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