For example, 32.6% of such deaths between 2002 and 2010 in Japan were coded as SIDS (R95), which Hauck said makes the number of reported SIDS deaths seem substantially lower.

Rates of “sudden unexpected death in infancy” (SUDI) in Japan - including as a result of suffocation or disease as well as SIDS - have continued to fall, and were estimated at 0.1 per 1,000 by ...