Meeting Dr. Rene Duignan, the director of the film “Saving 10,000: Winning a War on Suicide in Japan”
date : 3/15/2013
Number of suicide rates in Japan in 2012 reduced to 27,766 people by approximately 10% compared to 30,651 people indicated the previous year.
However, the suicide rate in Japan is still high, where it is twice the rate in U.S., and twelve times higher than in the Philippines.
The director of this film, Dr. Rene Duignan, works as an economist for Delegation of the European Union to Japan, and he had been living in Japan as a Japanophile for more than ten years. In his study about healthcare system in Japanese medical field, he was motivated to act on the high suicide rate in Japan and came to produce the film. He spent three years to document a film featuring the interviews of 95 people, taking one year for each in interviews, shooting and editing.
The film had
drawn a variety of problems surrounding suicide, which including the problem of consumer
finance, life insurance, economic loss
brought by suicide, addictions, and mental
health issues. It also recorded issues where people seldom
speak about, and introduced the various on-going suicide prevention
efforts. The film
concluded with ten take home messages, where Dr. Rene urges the audience to
seriously consider the issue of suicide through broad and different angles.
(medium: Japanese)
■Theme
Meeting Dr.
Rene Duignan, the director of the film “Saving 10,000: Winning a War on Suicide
in Japan”
■Speaker
Dr. Rene Duignan
Dr. Rene Duignan
was born in Ireland in 1971, and graduated from University of Dublin. He came
to Japan in 1997, and gained his PhD in International business with Aoyama
Gakuin University. He had been working as a lecturer in Aoyama Gakuin
University for the courses in Global Business, European Economy etc. He was
also a teaching fellow in Temple University, where he taught healthcare system.
After working with Tokyo Office of Banca d’Italia, he is now working as an
economist for the European Union in the Tokyo Delegation since 2011, dealing
with the economic problems of Europe and Japan.
The documentary
film “Saving 10,000: Winning a War on Suicide in Japan” is accessible at this
website. http://www.saving10000.com/
■Date and Time
April 11, 2013
8:00am-9:00am
■Venue
GARB Marunouchi
（2-2-3
Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo）
■Application
Procedure
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Thursday, April 9th, 2013. When the seats are fully booked, we may stop
accepting applications.
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Registration deadline: 2013-04-09
Exhibition date：2013-04-11
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