HuffPost: 05/10/2012 5:50 pm
The Aokigahara Forest is the most popular site for suicides in Japan. After the
novel Kuroi Jukai was published, in which a young lover commits suicide in the
forest, people started taking their own lives there.
Each year, in the Aokigahara Forest, dozens of people reportedly push through a
dense "sea of trees" to find a place to take their lives. Those who are indecisive
leave trails of colored tape woven between the trees so they can navigate out
should they change their minds.
The site holds so many bodies that the Yakuza pays homeless people to sneak
into the forest and rob the corpses. The authorities sweep for bodies only on an
annual basis, as the forest sits at the base of Mt. Fuji and is too dense to patrol
more frequently.
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The Aokigahara Forest is the most popular site for suicides in Japan. After the
novel Kuroi Jukai was published, in which a young lover commits suicide in the
forest, people started taking their own lives there.
Each year, in the Aokigahara Forest, dozens of people reportedly push through a
dense "sea of trees" to find a place to take their lives. Those who are indecisive
leave trails of colored tape woven between the trees so they can navigate out
should they change their minds.
The site holds so many bodies that the Yakuza pays homeless people to sneak
into the forest and rob the corpses. The authorities sweep for bodies only on an
annual basis, as the forest sits at the base of Mt. Fuji and is too dense to patrol
more frequently.
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