Japan is stereotyped around the world as a country infamous for suicides. It is questionable how accurate this is and therefore the aim of the paper is to find out how widespread and justified this spatial stereotype is by comparison with South Korea. South Korea was chosen because it is Japan’s overseas neighbor as well because of their historical, cultural and economic connections. The paper has two hypotheses. The first hypothesis is that Japan is stereotypically associated with suicide, while South Korea is significantly less attached to that stereotype. The second hypothesis is that Japan leads in the number of suicides, but that the number is not significantly higher than the one in South Korea. The methods used included creating graphs, tables and maps based on suicide data from the OECD database, E-stat, Statistics Japan and Statista. Google Earth was used to create the maps. The most significant results include a higher number of suicides per 100,000 population in Japan than South Korea in 1985, while in the 2018 it is another way round including results for total population and separate for men and women. The key period is the 2000s, which marked the beginning of quality implementation of suicide prevention policies in Japan. Japan and South Korea do not have an equal distribution of suicides within their territory because of dominating differences between urban and rural areas. Although difficult to prove, Japan is still spatially stereotyped as a suicide area, but unjustifiably compared to South Korea which has a higher number of suicides per 100,000 inhabitants.