#44 The Mystery of Aokigahara. ~ Suicide Forest around Mt. Fuji ~
2019. 2. 16
Hi everyone, how are you?
It's kÜshi.
You can study about Japan with Japanese
sentences here. I'm sure that it's the best way.
Today I tell you about Aokigahara.
You may have heard of it.
It's well known as "Suicide forest" in Japan.
It literally means many people have died in the
forest.
Aokigahara is very beautiful and is mysterious
because most areas of it are unknown.
It's said that compass and electric devices don't
work properly in the forest, so if people lose their
way, they would never go back.
So explorers make difficulty in exploring the forest.
Therefore, people believe that they can kill
themselves beautifully in the forest, so Aokigahara
became "Suicide forest"
There's an urban legend that people who lost their
way in it, or who missed to kill themselves gathered
and made a village in the forest.
Then a small country was built.
Did you get interested in Aokigahara?
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So let's see an example sentence about Aokigahara.
多くの 人 は 夜 青木ヶ原 の 森 に 入り、明け方 自殺 する
/oo-kuno hito wa yoru ao-ki-ga-hara no mori ni hai-ri, a-ke-gata ji-satsu suru/
...Many people go into Aokigahara at night and kill
themselves in the early morning.
👉多くの人/oo-kuno hito/
多くの means "many"
人 means "people"
So 多くの人 means "many people"
👉夜/yoru/
This means "night" and it can also mean "at night"
👉青木ヶ原の森/ao-ki-ga-hara no mori/
青木ヶ原 is a proper noun.
森 means forest.
👉入り/hai-ri/
This is a connecting form of 入る, which means to
enter or to go into.
The sentence is last after the verb, 入る should be
changed into 入り
👉明け方/a-ke-gata/
This means "early morning"
👉自殺/ji-satsu/
This means "killing oneself"
自 means oneself
殺 means to kill
👉自殺する/ji-satsu suru/
する means to do.
So 自殺する means like "to do killing oneself" and it
means "to kill oneself"
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That's all explanations.
Now you can translate the sentence!
多くの人は夜青木ヶ原の森に入り、明け方自殺する
this means:
"Many people go into Aokigahara at night and kill
themselves in the early morning"
40 people tries to kill themselves in one minute and
2 people really pass away in the world.
Some people say that Suicide is one of the best
ways to really suffered people. Dying is the happiest
to them. Suicide is not always wrong.
I can't disagree. But, so what is wrong? This world
took a mistake?
I'm afraid but I have no idea.
I just wish suicide couldn't be the best way to
anyone and to come the real peace to all people's
hearts.
Thank you so much for reading.
