Rising suicide figures reflect many women's despair in a pandemic

Some people's lives are like horror movies. It's strange that, in an age that can create virtual reality, self-driving cars and intelligent machines, the world's third-largest economy can't solve the problem of human misery. More and more Japanese women seem to feel it is. Female suicide is sharply rising. National Police Agency statistics tell the tale, as far as numbers can tell it -- 651 women are known to have taken their own lives that month, up from 400-500 a month typically.