Child supporters worry as suicides tend to rise after summer break

Nonprofit organizations and other entities supporting children are stepping up efforts to prevent kids from committing suicide, as students who kill themselves tend to do so around the end of the summer school holidays in Japan.According to data released by the Cabinet Office in 2015, dates when children aged up to and including 18 committed suicide between 1972 and 2013 were mostly concentrated on or around Sept. 1 when the new semester starts at schools in many parts of Japan.The children's suicide rate also tends to rise around the end of spring and the Golden Week holidays in April and …READ FULL ARTICLE