The Hmong are an ethnic group from the highlands of Laos. When a communist movement called the Pathet Lao began to gain power in Laos during the Vietnam War, the Central Intelligence Agency recruited the Hmong to fight the communists and attack North Vietnamese supply lines. The resulting conflict far outlasted the Vietnam War.
High suicide rate. Approximately 30,000 Japanese people commit suicide each year. Japan has the highest life expectancy rate in the world in part because of universal health insurance, compulsory primary education and a general healthy lifestyle, according to a new study.
Japanese man is Guinness record holder for longest time on death row. Itâs certainly not a record to be proud of, but the Guinness World Records has certified 77-year-old Japanese prisoner Iwao Hakamada as being the worldâs longest-serving death row inmate. Incarcerated at the Tokyo Detention House, Hakamada was officially recognized by the world-famous records-keeping organization on March 10, 2011, on his 75th birthday and his 42nd year in death row.