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More than a “Suicide Forest”: Logan Paul, Aokigahara, and the Complicated Stigma of Suicide in Japan

More than a “Suicide Forest”: Logan Paul, Aokigahara, and the Complicated Stigma of Suicide in Japan

In Japan, NHK (Japan’s public broadcasting organization) produces a program called Cool Japan. In it, new transplants to Japan are taken on cultural field trips around the country. In the...