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Yukio Mishima

Japan’s most famous writer committed suicide after a failed coup attempt – now, new photos add more layers to the haunting act

April 16, 2021 by Kirsten Cather

Japanese writer Yukio Mishima has long been a favorite of the international press.

Aokigahara forest is also known as the "Sea of Trees."

The Dead Deserve Peace and Privacy

January 23, 2018 by Kirsten Cather

“To display the dead, after all, is what the enemy does,” writes Susan Sontag in Regarding the Suffering of Others. Logan Paul became Public Enemy No. 1 after posting a videolog on YouTube of a dead, hanged body of an unidentified person in Aokigahara forest, a dense thicket on the northwest side of Mt. Fuji, […]

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