Much has been written about this forest in water culture, folklore and literature. However, if we go back to the distant past, its history is not beautiful at all. The folklore written about this forest is very scary.

This forest is notorious not for parapirtan, but for harakiri, or suicide. So it is a deadly forest, the memory of which is terrible and terrifying to all. Even today, this forest is becoming a symbol of trauma. Anti-life, very dark, evil and sinister psychology like suicide which should be discouraged all over the world is associated with this forest.

Painful harakiri has not been seen in Japan in the 21st century. The government is adopting many measures to discourage people from committing suicide. However, secretly the Japanese are doing their end. The story of 'suicide forest' is unique among places where suicide is committed. 

This forest at the foot of Mt.Fuji, which is a two-hour drive from the capital Tokyo, is dense and vast. It is said that even the rays of the sun cannot enter the forest. The area of ​​this forest is spread over an area of ​​35 square kilometers. The Japanese government did not feel the need to set up a mobile tower in it due to its large area and unmanned nature. However, the government has made some efforts to stop that step after the number of people committing suicide has increased continuously over the years.

This forest is located in a place called Aokihara in Yamanashi Prefecture, which is connected to Mount Fuji. This forest is also known as 'juukhai' in Japanese. It means 'sea of ​​trees'. Because, when the wind is blowing here, it looks like the water in the sea is shaken when viewed from Mount Fuji above. It is one of the most beautiful and breathtaking views from Mount Fuji.

Scientists have discovered that there was a large pond in the past in this vast forest. The lava of a huge volcano in 864 filled the lake and slowly the Bhutans started to grow. Due to the fact that the forest was born from a great natural event, various horror stories were written and heard about it.

With these stories, the number of people who are out of contact started to increase around this forest. The bodies of the dead were also found sporadically. After the road transport reached the forest, not only the surrounding people, but also people from far away who came to this forest for suicide increased. Therefore, it seems that there are sayings that reflect the importance of life in the places of the forest path. When you read these words, you know that we are entering the forest of suicide.

I have had the opportunity to travel through this forest many times. Abandoned bags, clothes and even their skeletons left by the suicide bombers along the way can still be seen today. There are also small carts covered with tall grass. Only those who dare to risk their lives can enter the dense forest. It is said that even a compass does not work in the forest. It has been found that people die of hunger and thirst after entering the forest.

People who enter the forest rarely come back. However, there is a record that many people enter this forest every year. It is estimated that some enter the forest with the intention of committing suicide and some to use it on life. The writers of the life awareness boards placed in places should make a difference between them, but it doesn't seem like that. 

It is said that the local government has made necessary arrangements to pick up mobile towers around the forest after people keep disappearing, but people who walk with the intention of suicide are not found to be using this network. Instead, it has become easy for them to find out the number of people who go missing in this forest every year because of the mobile numbers noted by the relatives after their disappearance. Such statistics say that people who come to commit suicide in this forest are not only nearby, but also distant people from Japan. 

People who commit suicide here have adopted various measures. Some bodies are found hanging from trees. Stakeholders have mentioned the fact that some of them sat at the foot of the tree and reached the point of death, weakening their strength. It has also been found that even after planning to commit suicide, he turned back and died of hunger and thirst while trying to find a way out. It has also been observed that some people try to find themselves through mobile phones. In this way, security personnel who go to the forest to look for people have said that they have also seen skeletons hanging from trees. Even with such words, it is felt that this forest is a terrible masanghat.

It has been found that such people who enter the forest to commit suicide are very careful not to reveal their identity. This is the reason that not only around the skeleton, but also around the fresh corpse, there is no material to reveal their identity. In Japan, if a family member goes missing and is not found no matter how hard they search, people are worried that they may have gone to the suicide forest.

The local government of Yama Nasi Ken has considered this forest and the suicides that happen here to be a disgrace to the state. Due to the heavy traffic in the area due to Mount Fuji, it is not possible to monitor everyone. Because the forest spread over a large area can be entered from anywhere, the local government has not been able to stop suicide despite its best efforts. From exactly what date did this forest develop as a suicide site? Researchers and Japanese society are confused about this issue.

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Even if the Japanese government wants to, it has not been able to stop the suicide rate. During the corona epidemic, two main things were observed in the patients of covid-19. One was, comparatively more pregnancies than in the past and the other was mental stress and suicide. Also, Japan is one of the countries with the highest suicide rate in the world. In this situation, due to the financial crisis and unemployment amid the corona epidemic, the graph of suicide has risen rapidly.

suicides were not only ordinary people, there were also actors who earned a lot of fame in the world of glamor and had no shortage of fame and money. One of them was Yuko Takeuchi. Famous not only in Japan, but also in Hollywood, Yuko could be seen in everything from good movies to product posters of big Japanese companies. He had fans in every house.

Seeing this popularity, HBO television channel offered Yuko the lead role in the wave series 'Miss Sorlock' prepared in 2018. Yuko Takeuchi's performance as the English-language lead role of 'Miss Sorlock' became so popular that her fame within Japan spread throughout the world. She was gearing up to work in Hollywood new wave series and movies. However, in the meantime, the mental stress spread after the spread of the corona epidemic also caught them. Due to this stress, she committed suicide in her flat in Tokyo on the third Thursday of September 2020.

Before that, another popular actress Sei Asina also committed suicide in the first week of September. Two months before that, another popular artist Haruma Miura also committed suicide. Before that, popular Netflix actress Hana Kimura also committed suicide. Among the news of Corona epidemic, news of suicide was also heard every day. More than 1,900 people committed suicide in Japan alone in August, when the Corona epidemic reached its peak. In 2003, Japan was ranked among the countries with the highest number of suicides in the world. 

Japan has been leading the suicide rate since 1960. The age of those who commit suicide is between 20 and 44 years. It also shows the problem that the number of elderly people in Japan will continue to increase and the number of young people will continue to decrease. However, compared to other countries in the world, children and the elderly also commit suicide in Japan. This is another strange truth. This is why compared to other countries, Japan's suicide news is making the world news. Statistics show that 185 out of every 1 million people are committing suicide here.

The suicide rate in Japan began to rise in the 80s and 90s. It has been since 1998 that it has started to increase in an amazing manner. This year, after the economic recession began in Asian countries, the suicide rate, which increased, started to decrease in the following few years. However, after the economic recession started in the world in 2008, suicides started to increase there again. After that, suicide decreased again and increased again after the corona epidemic. Even as I write this article, news of suicides is coming from all corners of Japan.

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Why are suicides constantly increasing in Japan? Ever since I arrived in Japan, I had a question in my mind. It is not that the news that the suicide rate has decreased in Japan did not come after some time, but since Japan somehow remains high among the countries with the highest number of suicides in the world, I became more interested in this matter and made some notes.

It is written somewhere - the Japanese have a culture of suicide in their blood. But, now it should not become a culture, adopting a bad culture is an anti-life thing. People should never become anti-life. In Japan, samurai warriors are famous for their war. If they lost a battle or did not get what they wanted, they used to do harakiri in public. Harakiri is also called Seppoku.

As written in Japanese history, harakiri is one of the most painful forms of suicide, in which a samurai warrior would publicly take a sharp but small knife in his right hand and cut his internal organs, including his intestines, from left to right in public. It is a painful suicide in which life cannot be lived, but death is not immediate.

In this way, the villagers cheered and saluted the samurai warriors after the stabbing, and after a few hours of agony, they died, revered by the people as warriors. In view of the fact that immediate death is not possible while doing harakiri, two people were kept in a state of preparation in advance, and he used to shorten the period of pain for those who wanted to die. 

In 1970, the world was shaken by Harakiri, which was carried out by some political warriors, including the world-famous Japanese writer Mishima Yukio. Harakiri reached every corner of the world when the age of radio reached its peak and the age of television began, it became the interest of intellectuals. Yukio Mishima, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize from Japan, was a monarchist. After World War II, the king's rights were taken away and he liked that the king was figurative. There was no

. A faction of royalists called the Tate no Khai, led by Mishima, attacked the military headquarters and attempted a failed coup d'état. After the failed revolution of 1970, he and his commanders died in a painfully public hara-kiri in front of thousands of soldiers at the military headquarters complex in Ichigaya, Tokyo.

Japanese warriors fought aggressively against other countries from the beginning. However, victory was not possible in all wars. At this time, the samurai warriors who were imprisoned used to perform hara-kiri in front of the enemy. Harakiri, which was done so as not to open the pole of his war policy with the enemy, became so famous that even on the death of the king, some warriors of the people and the army used to do harakiri to show respect to him. There are examples of Japanese military chiefs also committing harakiri.

Such warriors were highly respected. Because of this respect, Harakiri became popular in Japan until the 20th century. In World War II, when the US and its allies suffered defeat, the Japanese army around the world decided to do harakiri rather than surrender. Many harakiri folk songs are still popular in Japan today. In such songs there is a praiseworthy description of the battles fought by the warrior and the harakiri he performed in defense of his comrades. After the

, the government would publicly order Harakiri to those who committed treason. After receiving such an order, even traitors would have easily met their miserable end. Harakiri is believed to have originated in Japan from the Heian period (794-1185). By the Edo period (1603–1868), harakiri had taken root down to the village level. That was the big punishment of the time.

History says - Fujiwara Noyasusuke was the first person to be punished for Harakiri. Not only men, but women warriors also practiced harakiri. The women's harakiri was called jigai, in which the warrior would end himself in one fell swoop. Harakiri is considered a legal crime in Japan today. And, it is necessary to conduct a big campaign against that terrible crime.