Suicide Girls

Model: Natsumi

This photograph is not supposed to be glamour, beauty or cool, but this is a fact of life in Japan that so many young people have tried to commit suicide one time or another. As outsiders, we see Japan as a very happy place but if you go deeper into their lifestyle you would meet lots of people who are mentally ill and depressed. During my 3 months stay in Japan I have met 6 people in person who had cut marks on their wrists and I have seen many many others in the streets.

Well, they are the REAL Suicide Girls, sadly.

Her story: The person whom she loved and shared everything disappeared one day with all the money in her bank account that she worked very hard to save. She was a beautician for Shiseido. So all of a sudden she had zero in her bank account . She got into a depression and moved back in with her family. At the time I met her, she was in town to make a police report for the 3rd time for the guy who fleed with her money. They couldn't find him. After she got sick , she lost her job, the doctors prevented her to work, she lost so much weight, at the time she was 34kgs. She had a big bottle of Shochu ( a Japanese alcoholic drink ) in her hand and was drinking in the afternoon the first time I met her in a park. She talked to me. She showed me her old photos where she looked so different and happy. We became good friends later on. But now I lost contact with her, she has disappeared as well. She was 24 years old.