Case file · Folklore / legend
The wind phone of Ōtsuchi
A disconnected phone box in a garden above Ōtsuchi, Iwate, set up in 2010 by Itaru Sasaki for his late cousin, became after the 2011 tsunami a place where thousands of people 'call' the dead.
2011 CE · 39.37, 141.92 · status: official
The account
The phone, kaze no denwa, is not connected; callers speak to lost family as if the wind carries their words. It has inspired similar phones around the world.