If you are so depressed and feel there is no point of living, you will not care about the economical influence. There should be another approach. This public announcement seems to be trying hard to save the country's financial crisis, not the people's healthy lives.
The problem lies in people's attitude toward depression, a lingering perception that persists; still many people tend to view depression as weakness and mental illnesses as a stigma. There is something to do with culture and competition. If somebody got mental illness and cannot work any more, he or she is no longer "useful" to the employer. and the culture, where it's difficult for colleagues to be friends, makes it difficult to get help. Our tendency to keep emotions inside, which is considered to be a dignity, sometimes hampers us to voice what we think weakness, as well.
I wonder which is true, the situation doesn't change because they think it's out of their control, or, because they found an advantage in that system that is good enough to keep it going? It's really strange for me that many things are not changing even though many many people complain it and want to change it. Do they hate or fear of being considered a freak?
Reference:
http://edition.cnn.com/video/Suicide hit hard on Japan's economy
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