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Aokigahara

Suicide Forest

September 17, 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 […]

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Suicide Forest

August 14, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

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