http://www.guardian.co.uk/japan/story/0,7369,1368716,00.htmlThree people were found dead inside a car parked outside a remote forest in Japan early yesterday in what police suspected was the country's latest group suicide.
The two women and a man were found in Yayoi, in the southern prefecture of Oita, police spokesman Mikio Suura said. A 42-year-old woman was slumped in the driver's seat, while a 19-year-old man sat alongside her. A 26-year-old woman was in the back seat.
The three, who had no obvious external wounds, are believed to have died from carbon monoxide poisoning, police said. Three portable stoves were placed on the floor and the windows were sealed with vinyl tape from the inside. Suicide notes were found in the car.
The victims each came from different parts of west ern Japan. The 42-year-old woman hailed from Osaka, while the other two came from separate areas on the island of Kyushu, hundreds of miles away.
Japan has been hit by a series of suicide pacts recently, many plotted by people who met over the internet.
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mykeru.com had a deeply disturbing piece on the suicide recently:
http://www.mykeru.com/weekly/2004_1114_1120.html#111404"There's a vast woods at the foot of Mt. Fuji in Japan, the Aokigahara Forest (warning: linked page is graphic) where --I recall-- for the year some 70 people have taken their own lives, mostly by hanging. I have photos of that too. There's strange fruit, and then there's stranger fruit. Bodies found weeks after death, some rotted, some leathery, and all of them a bottomless well of sadness of people who hiked to their own deaths, to die alone as part of a self-destructive movement."
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