TOKYO: Authorities in central Japan are trying an unusual new approach to tackle the East Asian country's longstanding suicide problem: printing messages of support on toilet paper.

"Dear you, who might want to end it all," reads the toilet paper being used in an unusual new initiative to reach out to suicidal young people in the country.

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