Aokigahara is famously known as “The Suicide Forest” or “Sea of Trees”, it is a 35-square-kilometre (14 sq mi) forest located at the northwest base of Mount Fuji in Japan. Aokigahara forest is very dense, shutting out all but the natural sounds of the forest itself. The forest has a historic association with “yūrei” or angry ghosts of the dead in Japanese mythology, and it is a notoriously common suicide site (54 took place in 2010), and because of that a sign hangs at the entrance warning its’ suicidal visitors to seek help, and to think of their families.
The forest is reportedly the most popular site for suicide in Japan, and among the top three most popular sites for suicide in the world, there were about 30 suicides per year leading up to the year 1988. In 2003, 105 bodies were found in the forest, exceeding the previous record of 78 in 2002. Suicides are said to increase during March, the end of the fiscal year in Japan. As of 2011, the most common means of suicide in the forest were hanging or drug overdose. Local officials have stopped publicizing the numbers in an attempt to downplay Aokigahara’s association with suicide. Annual body searches have been conducted by police, volunteers, and attendant journalists since 1970.
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