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Aokigahara Forest is a lonely place of death. The vegetation at the foot of Mount Fuji in Japan is so dense that it can easily disappear among the evergreens, never to be seen again.
Every year authorities remove up to 100 bodies that hang from the country’s suicide hotspots – but others may go undiscovered for years.
After the publication of the story of a young lover committing suicide in the forest in the novel “Kuroi Hisami”, people started committing suicide there at a rate of 50 to 100 per year.
The site holds so many bodies that gangs pay homeless people to sneak into the forest to loot the bodies.
Authorities only search for bodies each year because the forest is at the foot of Mount Fuji and too dense to patrol more frequently.
Warning: This program contains material that some viewers may find disturbing.
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