Its setting — a Japanese forest called Aokigahara that is an infamous site for suicides (as well as a rich source of ghost mythology) — is real, and a sterling example of the many terrifying ...

Japan’s Aokigahara forest is infamous as a haunted place, where people from around the world travel to commit suicide. In 2016 though, it’s become where film crews go to make bad movies.

AOKIGAHARA, Japan (KABC) -- A new movie called "The Forest" is bringing attention to a quiet and beautiful forest, but there's a reason government officials would rather you forget it exists. ...

Keiko Chiken, head of the health promotion division of the Yamanashi Prefecture government. The government has launched suicide prevention patrols with speaker- and infrared camera-equipped drones ...

Japan’s notorious Aokigahara forest — or “Sea of Trees,” as its name roughly translates to — is back in the spotlight after popular YouTuber Logan Paul briefly shared a video of a ...

Known as the "sea of trees," Japan's Aokigahara forest has a grim history. | JUNKO TAKAHASHI, Amana Images Collection, Getty Images 4. The Japanese government enacted suicide prevention strategies ...

Shoes are piled neatly by the entrance, cars are abandoned in a square nearby, and bodies can be found hanging within. Long a subject of public fascination, Japan's "suicide forest" is now the ...

The Aokigahara Forest is a vast, ... The rate also jumped higher than 20 per 100,000 people that year, and has stayed above that threshold. In the wake of the March 11 earthquake, ...

The dense and mysterious Aokigahara Forest, located at the foot of Mount Fuji, is Japan's most popular place to commit suicide--more than 100 bodies are found every year and it's estimated that ...