Scripting Suicide in Japan

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Japan is a nation saddled with centuries of accumulated stereotypes and loaded assumptions about suicide. Many pronouncements have been made about those who have died by their own hand, without careful attention to the words of the dead themselves. Drawing upon far—ranging creations by famous twentieth— and twenty—first—cent...