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10-30-2009, 08:32 PM
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Aokigahara Photos: Japan's Suicide Forest, Mount Fuji
Aokigahara is the dense forest on the northwest side of Mount Fuji in Japan that became notorious as a site of suicides; authorities stopped publishing annual counts to discourage imitation, and signs at the trailheads urge visitors to seek help. The association is often traced to a 1961 novel whose characters die there, though deaths in the forest predate it. These photographs circulated as scenes from the forest; individual cases in them are not identified. |