Located near the base of Mt. Fuji, Aokigahara has become ... But hey, who doesn’t love a good spooky forest, right? Legend has it that Aokigahara is haunted by lost souls who couldn’t resist ...

Hitoshi Sakio, a professor of forest ecology at Niigata University’s Sado Island Center for Ecological Sustainability, started an on-site survey along a section of Mount Fuji’s timberline ...