Each year in the Aokigahara Forest, dozens of people reportedly push through a dense "sea of trees" to find a place to take their lives. Those who are...

By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times Reporting from Tokyo— Naoko Sugimoto has heard the news through the nation's fledgling mental health gr...

If trouble comes in multiples, that is definitely true of Japan today.

TOKYO -- The number of Japanese who committed suicide declined last year, but remained above 30,000 for the 13th straight year with a sharp jump in de...

A Japanese man broadcast his own suicide live on the Internet after communicating with users who encouraged him to take his life, according to the Syd...

The first indications of a life that has been lost appear within a hundred yards of entering the forest. Scattered across mossy tree roots are a man's...