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Aokigahara Forest is the most popular site for suicides in Japan, the nation with the world’s highest suicide rate. After the novel Kuroi Jukai was published, in which two young lovers commit suicide in the forest, people started taking their own lives in the Aokigahara Forest at a rate of 50 to 100 deaths a year. Sitting at the base of Mt. Fuji, the forest is so dense that authorities only sweep for bodies on an annual basis.
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