Gatekeeper at 'Suicide Forest' hopes music can save livesJapan's 'Suicide Forest' made global headlines last year when YouTube star Logan Paul filmed an episode of his online series there showing the body of someone who had taken their own life. SEE ALSO :e-commerce giant hits $10 billion in first hourKyochi Watanabe has been waging an eight-year battle to banish the morbid reputation of Japan's 'Suicide Forest', using music to reach out to those who come to end their lives. Watanabe now lives in a hut on the edge of Aokigahara, which means "a field of blue trees". And the suicide rate in Yamanashi prefecture, where the forest is located, was the worst in Japan for eight years until 2014. But that hope was shattered when Paul uploaded his controversial film showing the body of a man who had committed suicide.

Source: Standard Digital December 21, 2018 07:55 UTC