By capita, age-standardized, both sexes, per 100,000 population, 2019, e.g. omitting emerging and Eastern European countries we have the following suicide rates: South Korea 21.2, US 14.5, Belgium 13.9, Finland 13.4, Sweden 12.4, Japan 12.2
In terms of technology, yes they are more advanced. But in terms of social progress they have A LOT of catching up to do in many areas. For example they don’t believe in challenging the status quo or those higher on the social pyramid than themselves no matter how bad they are. (In Japan whistle blowers are condemned for challenging the status quo and turning on their bosses instead of praised for exposing a white collar crime and helping their fellows. (Hence why (in my opinion) franz and co didn’t take public credit for the nightmare moon incident, they would have been treated as pariahs.)
