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Suicide Forest in Japan
- Published_at:2012-05-09
- Category:Entertainment
- Channel:vice
- tags: suicide, suicidal, hanging, hang, hanged, suicide forest, suicidal thoughts, suicidal tendencies, death, dead, sad, angry, economy, lonely, Aokigahara, japan, mt. Fuji, yakuza, mass suicide, depression, depressed, Japanese, Kuroi Jukai, culture, exclusive, Independent, underground, travel, videos, journalism, VICE guide, VICE Presents, VICE news, vbs, vbs.tv, vice.com, VICE, VICE magazine, VICE mag, VICE videos, VICEVIDEOS
- description: The Aokigahara Forest is the most popular site for suicides in Japan. After the novel Kuroi Jukai was published, in which a young lover commits suicide in the forest, people started taking their own lives there at a rate of 50 to 100 deaths a year. The site holds so many bodies that the Yakuza pays homeless people to sneak into the forest and rob the corpses. The authorities sweep for bodies only on an annual basis, as the forest sits at the base of Mt. Fuji and is too dense to patrol more frequently. Need help? In the U.S., call 1-800-273-8255 for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Watch the last VICE Presents here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Presents-011 Subscribe for videos that are actually good: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE Check out our full video catalog: http://www.youtube.com/user/vice/videos Videos, daily editorial and more: http://vice.com Like VICE on Facebook: http://fb.com/vice Follow VICE on Twitter: http://twitter.com/vice Read our tumblr: http://vicemag.tumblr.com
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| 2012-05-12 | 226,053 | 5,148 | 826 |
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| 2012-05-13 | 292,576 | 5,716 | 1,014 |
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