自殺の名所として知られる、富士山北西の青木ヶ原樹海。松本清張の小説『波の塔』での取り上げがきっかけとなり、自殺志願者が訪れては命を自ら絶つ。遺体回収はまるで追いつかず、この一帯では数多の遺体が眠る。
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