The high suicide rate is an interesting fact. Checking on http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/suicider... Finland and Japan are indeed right next to each other. But on http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murde... Finland's murder rate is closer to USA (#30 vs #24) than Japan's #60.
The parallels between Germans and Japanese were indeed about being methodological. I am unsure how this idea really holds though, as the education systems are, AFAIK, very different. There's still much to find out...
This kind of thing happens almost exclusively in the Finnish countryside.
It's strange, but it's better than lunatics killing random people on the streets.
I'd say that random killings are extremely rare, maybe unlike America, and that this is still a relatively safe place.
But lately we've had our share of totally incomprehensible violence too..
The high suicide rate is an interesting fact. Checking on http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/suicider... Finland and Japan are indeed right next to each other. But on http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murde... Finland's murder rate is closer to USA (#30 vs #24) than Japan's #60.
The parallels between Germans and Japanese were indeed about being methodological. I am unsure how this idea really holds though, as the education systems are, AFAIK, very different. There's still much to find out...