Question: Suicide in China, while being lower than in Japan, seems to be a more common practice among women than men, while in Japan, it appears to be more common among men, what is the rate of male suicides in Japan?

Context articles: Suicide in China
Suicide in Japan
Health in the Palestinian territories
Senegalese kaftan
Shinjū
Ding zui
Disability in Indonesia
Youth suicide
Suicide in the United Kingdom
Murid

Suicide in China has a long history as a cultural practice.
 Commemoration of Qu Yuan's patriotic suicide is popularly considered the basis for the annual Dragon Boat Festival.
 Study of modern suicide in China is complicated by political concerns which cause official statistics to vary (sometimes greatly) from the findings of independent studies.
 Generally speaking, China seems to have a lower suicide rate than neighboring Korea and Japan, with the practice more common among women than men and more common in the Yangtze Basin than elsewhere.
Suicide in Japan has become a significant national social issue.
 In 2014 on average 70 Japanese people committed suicide every day, and the vast majority were men.
 Japan has a relatively high suicide rate compared to other countries, but the number of suicides is declining and as of 2013 has been under 30,000 for three consecutive years.
 Seventy-one percent of suicides in Japan were male, and it is the leading cause of death in men aged 20–44.
 By 2016, suicide rates had reached a 22-year low of 21,764, that is, men decreased by 1,664 to 15,017 and women decreased by 597 to 6,747.
With obesity rates of 23.9% for men and 42.8% for women, Palestine is listed as the 8th most obese country in the world among men and 3rd most obese among women.
 This is mostly due to decreased physical activity and greater than necessary food consumption, particularly with an increase in energy coming from fat.
 Two other factors are smoking and urbanization.
 In addition, "leisure-time physical activity is not a common concept in the Palestinian context, especially for rural women, where lack of sex-segregated facilities and cultural norms are prohibitive factors."
 Women in urban areas face similar cultural restrictions.
A Senegalese kaftan is a pullover men's robe with long bell sleeves.
 In the Wolof language, this robe is called a "mbubb" or "khaftaan" and in French it is called a "boubou".
 The Senegalese caftan is an ankle length garment.
 It is worn with matching drawstring pants called "tubay" in Wolof.
 Normally made of cotton brocade, lace, or synthetic fabrics, these robes are common throughout West Africa.
 A kaftan and matching pants is called a kaftan suit.
 The kaftan suit can be worn with a kufi cap.
 Senegalese kaftans are formal wear in all West African countries.
 In the United States, some merchants sell this robe as a "Senegalese style dashiki pant set" or a "full length dashiki pant set".
 Men who are members of the Hausa tribe, wear these kaftans to formal events like naming ceremonies and weddings.
 In the United States, a kaftan is one of three formal suits, equivalent to the tuxedo, that African-American grooms select for their weddings.
 The other styles being the dashiki pant set, and the grand boubou, pronounced "gran boo-boo".
 There are various other formal robes that are worn throughout West Africa, and with the exception of the Yoruba Gbarie robe, pronounced "barry", most of these are a form of Islamic dress, see sartorial hijab.
 The kaftan is worn by Christians, African Jews, Muslims, and followers of African traditional religion.
 Furthermore, Senegalese kaftans are common among men of African descent in the African diaspora.
 The Senegalese kaftan is men's attire.
 In West Africa, and the United States, this robe is not worn by women.
 The women's robe is called a kaftan.
Shinjū (心中, the characters for "mind" and "centre") means "double suicide" in Japanese, as in "Shinjū Ten no Amijima" ("The Love Suicides at Amijima"), written by the seventeenth-century tragedian Chikamatsu Monzaemon for the puppet theatre ("bunraku" and/or "joruri" theatre).
 In common parlance shinjū is used to refer to any group suicide of persons bound by love, typically lovers, parents and children, and even whole families.
 In Japanese theatre and literary tradition, double suicides are the simultaneous suicides of two lovers whose "ninjo," "personal feelings", or love for one another are at odds with "giri", "social conventions" or familial obligations.
 Double suicides were rather common in Japan throughout history and double suicide is an important theme of the puppet theatre repertory.
 The tragic denouement is usually known to the audience and is preceded by a "michiyuki," a small poetical journey, where lovers evoke the happier moments of their lives and their attempts at loving each other.
Ding zui () is the Chinese practice of hiring impostors or body doubles to stand trial and receive punishment in one's place.
 The term translates as "substitute criminal," and is reported to be a relatively common practice among China's wealthy elite.
Estimates for the prevalence of disability in Indonesia vary widely based on criteria.
 The 2010 Indonesian census reports that only 4.29% of Indonesians have disabilities, with a rate of 3.94% among men and 4.64% among women.
 Data from the 2007 Riskesdas household survey, by contrast, based on a definition of having a lot of difficulty in at least one functional domain, gives a rate of disability of 11.05%, with 9.40% for males and 12.57% for females.
 Both sets of data show rates of disability rising significantly with age.
Youth suicide is when a young person, generally categorized as someone below age 21, deliberately ends their own life.
 Rates of attempted and completed youth suicide in Western societies and other countries are high.
 Youth suicide attempts are more common among girls, but adolescent males are the ones who usually carry out suicide.
 Suicide rates in youths have nearly tripled between the 1960s and 1980s.
 For example, in Australia suicide is second only to motor vehicle accidents as its leading cause of death for people aged 15–25, and according to the National Institute for Mental Health, suicide is the third leading cause of death among teens in the United States.
 Based on a survey done on American high school students, 16% reported considering suicide and 8% reported attempting suicide sometime within the 12 months before taking the survey.
 Between 1980 and 1994, the suicide rates of young black males doubled.
 American Indians and Alaska Natives commit suicide at a higher rate than any other ethnic group in the United States.
 In India, one-third of suicides are young people 15–29.
 In 2002, 154,000 suicides were recorded in India.
Suicide is a significant national social issue in the United Kingdom; 6,045; 5,608 and 5,675 people aged 15 and over died by suicide in from 2009-2011 respectively.
 The number of male suicides in 2011 was the highest since 2002.
 In January 2013, MPs expressed concern at this rise in the number of suicides.
Murid (Arabic: مُرِيد‎ ‎ ) is a Sufi term meaning "committed one" from the root meaning "willpower" or "self-esteem".
 It refers to a person who is committed to a "murshid" (spiritual guide) in a "tariqa" (spiritual path) of Sufism.
 Also known as a "salik" (Arabic: سَالِك‎ ‎ ) or a seeker, a "murid" is an initiate into the mystic philosophy of Sufism.
 When the seeker makes a pledge ("bay'ah") to a "murshid" the seeker becomes initiated as a "murid".
 The initiation process is known as "`ahd" (Arabic: عَهْد‎ ‎ ) or "bai'ath".
 Before initiation, a "murid" is guided and taught by a "murshid" or "Pir" who must first accept the initiate as his or her disciple.
 Throughout the instruction period, the "murid" typically experiences visions and dreams during personal spiritual exercises.
 These visions are interpreted by the "murshid".
 A common practice among the early Sufi orders, was to grant a "khirqa" or a robe to the "murid" upon the initiation or after he had progressed through a series of increasingly difficult and significant tasks on the path of mystical development.
 This practice is not very common now.
 "Murids" often receive books of instruction from "murshids" and often accompany itinerant "murshids" on their wanderings.