Japan teen jumps to death, killing pedestrian below

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Japan teen jumps to ******, ******** pedestrian below

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Two people have ***** in the ********* city of Yokohama after a teenage girl jumped to her ****** from a shopping centre, hitting a pedestrian below.

The 17-year-old high school student jumped from a building in a crowded shopping district, hitting a 32-year-old woman who was out with her friends on Saturday evening.

The two were immediately taken to hospital around 18:00 local time (09:00 GMT), where the girl ***** an hour later. The woman also ***** soon after.

It’s not clear why she might have ******* herself, though more people under the age of 18 in Japan ***** themselves on 1 September – just ahead of the new school term – than on any other day, according to official statistics.

Last year, 513 children took their own lives in Japan, with “school problems” cited as the most common factor.

Students who don’t want to return to school are known as futoko, or “people who don’t go to school.”

The main reasons why these futoko avoid school include family circumstances, personal issues with friends, and bullying, according to a previous survey by the ministry of education.

In recent years, authorities and media organisations have tried to raise public awareness of the challenges students face at this time of year.

Japan’s public broadcaster, NHK, for example, mounted a campaign on

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called “on the night of August 31″.

The most recent incident in Yokohama mirrors a similar episode in 2020, when a 17-year-old boy jumped from the roof of a shopping centre, ******** a 19-year-old female student in a busy district of Osaka.

At the time, the boy was posthumously charged with manslaughter, meaning that his family owed compensation to the family of the victim he *******. However, the charge was dropped shortly afterwards.

So far, the authorities have not indicated any culpability with regard to Saturday night’s deaths.

While Japan’s ******** rate is slowly decreasing among the general population, it is rising among young ********* people.

Japan is the only G7 country where ******** is the leading cause of ****** for teenagers.

Additional reporting by Chika Nakayama in Tokyo.

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