Suicide Forest

Studio 360 | Aug 29, 2013

Aokigahara is the forest at the foot of Mount Fuji. It’s mythologized in Japanese literature as a sacred place for people to end their lives — and every year close to a hundred suicides are committed there. Studio 360’s Pejk Malinovski went there to uncover why it lingers in the Japanese psyche.

→ See a slideshow of pictures from Aokigahara below

(Originally aired: January 30, 2009)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slideshow: Inside the Suicide Forest

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