But behind that are other issues, such as financial problems or losing their job.” 4. In 2011, the executive director of a suicide prevention hotline told Japan Times, “Callers most frequently cite mental health and family problems as the reason for contemplating suicide.
The numbers reached their peak in March, the end of Japan's financial year. The global financial crisis of 2008 made matters worse, resulting in 2,645 recorded suicides in January 2009, a 15 percent increase from the previous year. JAPAN HAS ONE OF THE HIGHEST SUICIDE RATES IN THE WORLD. "Vestiges of the seppuku culture can be seen today in the way suicide is viewed as a way of taking responsibility," said Yoshinori Cho, author of Why do People Commit Suicide? and director of the psychiatry department at Teikyo University in Kawasaki, Kanagawa. And while the practice is no longer the norm, it has left a mark. Self-inflicted death doesn't carry the same stigma in this nation as it does in others. Seppuku-a samurai's ritual suicide thought to be honorable-dates back to Japan's feudal era. However, some estimates claim as many as 100 people a year have successfully killed themselves there. Statistics on Aokigahara's suicide rates vary, in part because the forest is so lush that some corpses can go undiscovered for years or might be forever lost. AOKIGAHARA IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR SUICIDE DESTINATIONS IN THE WORLD. Here are a few of the terrible truths and scary stories that forged Aokigahara's morbid reputation. Untold visitors have chosen this place, notoriously called The Suicide Forest, as the setting for their final moments, walking in with no intention of ever walking back out. But it's the Japanese landmark's horrific history that made the woods a fitting location for the spooky horror film The Forest. Northwest of the majestic Mount Fuji is the sprawling 13.5 square miles of Aokigahara, a forest so thick with foliage that it's known as the Sea of Trees.
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