Show ' i " - 'I ' ' i i' i “r'"-s TLrw i Chester Damon'' By Associated Press Wilier ' i'i JRA’'' V' ' ' ' y jV: " :v' $' ” j Sv ' - 'V J '' ' -- tM AOK1GAHASA FOREST Japan (APJ—Whea mteiUte through this ancieal Jareetof majestic 300hyearild trees mi cool hollows they are advised sot to striyfrom the marram ! hlack volcanic rock paths That's became visibility is poor ! : £ v' " ' 1 ' £ : ! - ' National Police Agency figures show that 24391 Janese com' milled suicide across the country s last yem a S6 percent inertake ' f IgVer theprevious yeaftSf ' Japan has one r Uie world's highest suicide ratei With 17-- If? jfjg if- i'Y of Mount Ayiandfiie' floor of the desse woods — v knows as the “sea oftoes'"— is pocked with oatcriike holes and patches of slick 3DQBSovsied " - S : But straying hikers are inaraa-tegl- y Mumbling : - ' 'C VAV V 73 v"" s ’rr! -- sr !&? 5ssMS?'ti s 2 fe ' pet 100000 people taking dwir Clives each year That it highdr than the 12 per 100000 in five United States and the 7 in Eng-- " land but lower 'than' Finland’! 27J according to Japan’s Health i ' V : lf?aiatnfV v‘ '£' : V 4r ' - j ‘V - '— ' 4 "i v A a Efforts to preventdeaths at - Aoidgahara have beenhampered ' by wariness on the part of loital - officials to publicize the proUem tions for the suicidal — and growing more popular This year a record 58 bodies have already been found and authorities expect die 1998 soul to top 7a Officials attribute &e surge to the economic dump as Japan weathers its worst recea-sk- n in decades a hard problem to deal b'- wjdx How do you know iff some- - fc' r'fc 'v and risk Increasing pie area’s : mystique as s Suicide haven ?' ' StilL signs meant to discourage :s V v jJ" v 'l-lr urany would-b- e suicide victims have been posted alongside trail ' entrances' 'a 3Shh'T' w V “Your life is I’ precious gift cmi te from your parents” reads onej sign located in h' dark grove ttons ter tin sutridst-migrowing more popular This yoar n rucord 58 yards into the woods bodtaa afcnady twan found and authoritiaa expect tfw 1998 IMai to tmit nwy : :v worries to dren n Dqo’t in keep trot meatioued controversial ofiutrs were But aanay yovj self —please seek counselings 1993 book “The Complete Man saopped Often they bang them 'v selves from tree limbs or take ual of Suicide (sw Bnt many Japanese say the IM m the underixush trend dates to a 1960 novel “The “We don't sell them the rope” Pagoda of Waves” which was wa$ item ywac Besides Eailefi Amaao said “They come pre- - later serialized as a television 3aaaqfa(‘ pared They know what they’ru drama about a woman who kills herself m the forest teesaadde mcksded' people suf-- doing'' The dwk side of the natkxial White wickje carries stigma physical well known that in hwas Japan it has traditionally been paAisso U'J rf ' ' !' f f "i 'vr LTV " ‘ v ' ' i - s -r- - ft - - : V- ’ ’'t'S'i! ssssm - iteafsttSassS' tbansrmkedYo Kinuhadaki ? 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