As Noh and others have searched for the reasons, a complex answer has emerged.
CNN: Push to achieve tied to suicide in Asian-American women
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- One evening in 1990, Eliza Noh hung up the phone with her sister.
CNN: Push to achieve tied to suicide in Asian-American women
As varied as the causes of depression, Noh says she saw just as many approaches to overcoming it.
CNN: Push to achieve tied to suicide in Asian-American women
Moved by that tragedy, Noh has spent much of her professional life studying depression and suicide among Asian-American women.
CNN: Push to achieve tied to suicide in Asian-American women
Disturbed about the conversation, Noh immediately started writing a letter to her sister, a college student who was often depressed.
CNN: Push to achieve tied to suicide in Asian-American women
It is perhaps no accident that up the slope sits the Yarai stage of the leading school of Noh theatre.
"Noh Mul had been one of the ancient monuments with the greatest tourism development potential in northern Belize, " the association said.
But Noh says pressure from within the family doesn't completely explain the shocking suicide statistics for young women like her sister.
CNN: Push to achieve tied to suicide in Asian-American women
Noh added that simply being a minority can also lead to depression.
CNN: Push to achieve tied to suicide in Asian-American women
"I told her I supported her, and I encouraged her, " Noh says.
CNN: Push to achieve tied to suicide in Asian-American women
Others made him far older, dating from the Athenian drama and the Japanese noh plays, via the commedia dell'arte and Charlie Chaplin.
"In my study, the model minority pressure is a huge factor, " says Noh, who studied 41 Asian-American women who'd attempted or contemplated suicide.
CNN: Push to achieve tied to suicide in Asian-American women
The film is full of grand gestures and deadpan humor, including what is likely the finest scene of Noh theatre yet filmed in France.
Overnight leader Seung-Yul Noh of South Korea could not progress with a level par 71 to follow his nine-under par opening round of 62.
Noh says one study has shown that as young as the fifth grade, Asian-American girls have the highest rate of depression so severe they've contemplated suicide.
CNN: Push to achieve tied to suicide in Asian-American women
"Minister Vega also emphatically repudiates the allegation and or perception that he was involved in any way with the destruction of the Noh Mul, " the statement read.
Between the forest and the building is a pond on which sits a massive 19th-century Noh stage, the setting for outdoor presentations of classical drama and music several times a year.
Local media in the Central American country of 334, 000 people report the temple at the Noh Mul site in northern Belize was largely torn down by backhoes and bulldozers last week.
Though they had mastered the arts of war, they had time to devote to such pursuits as calligraphy, Zen Buddhism and the patronage of the stylized and masked performances of Noh theater.
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Professor ELIZA NOH (Asian-American Studies, California State University, Fullerton): Among the Asian-American Community when I was growing up, you know, I would hear about people who were attempting or had attempted suicide.
Heredity, Noh says, also plays a role.
CNN: Push to achieve tied to suicide in Asian-American women
Ong cites Lear, his avant-garde interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedy flavored with elements of Indonesian martial arts, Noh drama and Beijing opera -- and performed in different languages by a multi-national cast, half Singaporean, a good part Japanese, with a sprinkling of other Asians.
An assistant professor of Asian-American studies at California State University at Fullerton, Noh has read the sobering statistics from the Department of Health and Human Services: Asian-American women ages 15-24 have the highest suicide rate of women in any race or ethnic group in that age group.
CNN: Push to achieve tied to suicide in Asian-American women
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