Influence of Internet technologies on the trend of suicide in the modern society (by the example of Japan)
The Author basing on the materials and reports of the Japanese Mass Media analyses the impact of digital technologies on the trend of suicide in the end of the 20 <sup>th</sup> century. Suicide-related events described as a changing phenomenon that has a social, economic and technology context, are studied against the broad background of the develop- ment of postindustrial society and modern technologies.