JAPAN-SUICIDE-FOREST-INTERNET-MUSIC

In this picture taken on November 1, 2018 Japanese musician Kyochi Watanabe plays his guitar as he poses for a photo at the entrance of Aokigahara Forest, known as Suicide Forest, in Narusawa village, Yamanashi prefecture. - Japanese musician Kyochi Watanabe has waged an eight-year battle to try to turn back people who come to what is known as Japan's "Suicide Forest" -- using music to try to snap people out of their anguish. In the 1970s it being increasingly depicted in popular novels, movies and television dramas as the fictional setting for suicides and the association eventually became strong enough that suicidal people began travelling to the forest to die, often hanging themselves from its towering trees. (Photo by Behrouz MEHRI / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY: Japan-suicide-forests-internet-music, FEATURE by Shingo ITO (Photo credit should read BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP via Getty Images)