Chapter 20“You’re dressed,” Akiko said with brisk confidence, arranging the folders in her hands for his easy reading. “You are isolated over here. It’s a bit of a walk.”
“You’ll soon find that’s a good thing.”
“Here are the reports on suicides. Last year there were over 2,000 suicides at train stations in Japan,” she read, “And over 30,000 suicides for the year.”
Hiroshi whistled. “That many?”
“One suicide every fifteen minutes. Five or six a day by train.”
“We just need the foreigners. And just on trains.”
“They have some of those noted, but it might include Koreans and Chinese. I’ll call the office of statistics to see how they count them and whether they have specific records for foreigners.”
“Maybe it’s faster to call the embassies. Start with the Western embassies, but be care
