
Japan's "Suicide Forest" Victims Deserve More Respect
Japan's Aokigahara Forest has an undue reputation in the Western imagination as a place not necessarily of tragedy, but of allure.

Michael Darer is a recent graduate of Wesleyan University, with a BA in English and Creative writing. He currently resides in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Japan's Aokigahara Forest has an undue reputation in the Western imagination as a place not necessarily of tragedy, but of allure.

Japan's Aokigahara Forest has an undue reputation in the Western imagination as a place not necessarily of tragedy, but of allure.