The forest of Aokigahara, also known like Jyukai (Sea of Trees), occupies more than 3,000 hectares and this located on the feet of the Fuji mount, that is the west of Tokyo. This forest is chosen by tens of people every year to take off the life. The record frame in 2002, with 78 found corpses.

Already in the feudal Japan of century XIX, when a extreme hunger took place the poorest families approached the forest to leave and to let die to the children and people majors that could not feed. In the last century, the deceased writer Seich Matsumoto published a novel, later taken to the television, titled Kuroi Jukai (the black sea of trees), in which one of the personages was entered in Aokigahara to die. More recently, a book of Tsurumi titled Wataru Kanzen Jisatsu Manyuaru (the Complete Manual of the Suicide, 1993), that has sold 1? 3 million unit in that one country the life recommended, it like the perfect place to take off. In 2004, director Takimoto Tomoyuki rolled the film Ki nonUmi, in which he counted the history of four people who decided to commit suicide in this forest.

In 1971 they began to organize itself beaten to look for the mortal rest of the suicidal ones. Annually, a team of firemen and police that exceed the 300 people enter in Aokigahara to retire the corpses that have not been found throughout the year by the forest visitors and guards. In addition, a van of the police daily patrols the possible environs of the forest in search of suicidal.

The authorities placed posters in the forest with the following text: “A little while, please. The life is a precious gift that their parents gave him. It does not only keep his preoccupations for you, you look for attendance”.

NOTE: In 1998 I surpass for the first time the number of the 30,000 suicidal ones in Japan. The past year (2007) they took off the life 33,093 people, having itself reached in the 2003 highest number: 34.427. It is necessary to say, however, that according to the last data of the WHO Japan it occupies the tenth world-wide position as far as rate of suicides by each 100,000 inhabitants, heading the classification, by this order, Lithuania, Bielorrusia and Russia.

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