The number of elementary, junior high, and high school students who took their own lives last year exceeded 1 for the first time since Showa 514. In response to this, the Children and Family Agency compiled a draft plan to strengthen countermeasures.
Suicide crisis response teams for young people made up of experts from a wide range of occupations will be established in prefectures nationwide. The government aims to implement a nationwide system that uses computers distributed to each student at school to identify signs of suicide.