Inside Japan’s ‘Suicide Forest’
by Rob Gilhooly
Special To The Japan Times
Jun 26, 2011
I am walking through Aokigahara Jukai forest, the light rapidly fading on a mid-winter afternoon, when I am stopped dead in my tracks by a blood-curdling scream. The natural reaction would be to run, but the forest floor is a maze of roots and slippery rocks and, truth be told, I am lost in this vast woodland whose name, in part, translates as “Sea of Trees.â€
Inexplicably, I find myself moving toward the sound, searching for signs of life. Instead, I find death.
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