Though the figure decreased by 397 from the previous year, the country's suicide rate stays on the ninth rank among the other parts of the world, the Cabinet Office report confirmed, referring to World Health Organization (WHO) data.
Getting the highest rate was Lithuania, followed by Belarus and Russia, while the U.S. had the 43rd spot.
According to government spokesman Nobutaka Machimura, among the primary factors behind suicide rate were the economic crash and problems, in which 48 percent of those who killed themselves were jobless based on the WHO report.
"This is a problem that needs to be dealt with comprehensively by society," Machimura quoted at a news conference.
Top of those factors as well were the health complications in almost 50 percent of the suicide rate in 2006, which stirred the government to cite the need for coordination of both the local officials and the central administration in putting up a law to offer mental health care services to workers, stressed by the spokesman.
The said law is aimed to be implemented in June along with other measures to tackle unemployment and strain Web sites that encourage people to take their own lives.
Japan aims to slash the suicide rate by 20 percent in 10 years.
Suicide has been a common case in some parts of the world, which sometimes due to poverty like in South Asian countries.
But this is a different case with Japan, as one of the most developed nations globally, which considers career failure or unemployment as one of the reasons of its suicide case, and sometimes due to an "act of heroism".
