Larissa MacFarquhar: A Buddhist monk confronts Japan’s suicide culture. From time to time, Ittetsu Nemoto gets a group of suicidal people together to visit popular suicide spots, of which there are many in Japan. The best known is Aokigahara forest, the Sea of Trees, at the foot of Mt. Fuji. The forest became associated with suicide in the nineteen . . . (Subscription required.)
June 17, 2013 - The New Yorker