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The Tokyo Metropolitan Police have begun to investigate, searching for the man behind this cruel act.
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Titles from Final Fantasy and Attack on Titan franchises also on list in wake of deaths thought to have stemmed from online bullying.
Months after the Logan Paul scandal, a Japanese YouTube personality offers free hugs at Aokigahara in video that claims to show a life being saved.
The Taiwanese Internet idol had recently announced her retirement, and it was her last public appearance.
Latest video makes no mention of donations or outreach to suicide prevention organizations in Japan, however.
Video showing body of man who committed suicide in Aokigahara forest was only up for a day, but the backlash is likely to last much longer.
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