Suicide Cliff - location where Japanese civilians and soldiers took their own lives by jumping to their deaths in July 1944 in order to avoid capture by US troops.

Plum · 5 months ago

Suicide Cliff - location where Japanese civilians and soldiers took their own lives by jumping to their deaths in July 1944 in order to avoid capture by US troops.

Mog_fanatic · 5 months ago

I feel like there’s a suicide something or other all over Japan and it makes me sad. Just off the top of my head I can think of this, the suicide forest, the sea wall on Mitsubishi Island, nijino bridge, that one train station in Tokyo… Shits depressing

blackfire · 5 months ago

The US has quite a few too, mainly big bridges or deserts. Not sure what popular Europe spots there are.

superkret@feddit.org · 5 months ago

The dorm where I lived during university was known as the Jump Tower.
About one student per semester committed suicide by jumping off its roof.

TwoBeeSan · 5 months ago

All the cool kids commit ritual suicide 😎😎

skizzles · 5 months ago

I was unaware that there are were two from that time period.

There’s another one in Okinawa which is now known as Peace Prayer (or Memorial) Park.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_Prefectural_Peace_Memorial_Museum

Suicide Cliff - location where Japanese civilians and soldiers took their own lives by jumping to their deaths in July 1944 in order to avoid capture by US troops.

Suicide Cliff - location where Japanese civilians and soldiers took their own lives by jumping to their deaths in July 1944 in order to avoid capture by US troops.

Suicide Cliff - Wikipedia