>>97866035Suicide is legal in Japan so they've gotten very good at it over the centuries. There are online networks where, if you're afraid to die alone, you can join a "suicide club" and kill yourself with a group. Since suicide is legal in Japan, law enforcement cannot criminalize or regulate the suicide clubs.
As for jumping in front of trains, they've begun discouraging that by fining the families of the deceased hundreds of thousands of yen for the inconvenience the suicide caused. Most people don't do that anymore because they don't want to create a financial burden on their families. Aokigahara is kinda like Japan's "elephant graveyard". It's a quiet place where you can go and kill yourself without getting in anybody else's way. They used to publish the number of dead bodies they cleared out of the forest each year, but it ended up being treated like the score in a game, so the authorities stopped making the number public.
Japan is one of those "standing room only" countries with barbaric population density, so most don't mind when other remove themselves and make a little more elbow room for everybody else.
