When people don't have murder, homeless, ramped theft, they need some boogie man metric for the crier to report on.

And for Japan, the marginally higher suicide rate along with low population growth are it.

Of course the low rate of Christianity as well.

Here's another in case you didn't know. People always talk about working in Japan to be brutal and constantly work long hours the entire week.

Data says otherwise. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-work-week-by-country