By KEIBU HORIKAWA/ Staff Writer
June 26, 2021 at 06:00 JST
Yukio Shige, head of the Kokoro ni Hibiku Bunshu Henshukyoku group, which has released “Yomigaeru,” a collection of images showing the backs of suicidal visitors to a rocky coast area, poses on May 14 in Sakai, Fukui Prefecture. (Keibu Horikawa)
SAKAI, Fukui Prefecture--A despondent woman in her 30s, seemingly peering into the ocean off a sheer cliff, said she came to the Tojinbo coast here because she “did not want to cause extra trouble to my parents.” [Read More]
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