I think that Siokan made a good point. If you were off the path, you were in there illegally - anyone finding you had every reason to suspect that you were intending to die in there.
A couple, looking to be in a "difficult" to fulfill relationship (parents don`t always approve of marrying a foreigner...), way off the path... You can`t really blame the guy. Not to mention that there are apparently plenty of cases of people just getting lost and dying in there even when they didn`t intend to at entering - when you`re so far from the cell towers, you may not even be able to call for help.
The sign says: "Turn back now. Don`t waste your life. Recall the faces of your parents and siblings."
You can see some similar stuff at
Tojinbo - and will get the same treatment if you show up there after dark... And if you show up in the early morning you can sometimes see blood.
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goes to show that Japanese people are indeed somewhat xenophobic...
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By the way - xenophobic is not the word you want here. Noticing someone is clearly not ethnically Japanese isn`t quite "Intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries." If he were saying he didn`t care if she died, and that she should die because she wasn`t Japanese - THEN xenophobia would be the right choice. As it is, referring to someone as gaijin carries about as heavy a meaning as calling someone a "blonde".
People using that word incorrectly is becoming a bit of a pet peeve for me.