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Suicide Forest

Studio 360

    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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