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
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