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December 2, 2024 2:38 PM   Subscribe

"The wind phone is an unconnected telephone booth in Ōtsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, where visitors can hold one-way conversations with deceased loved ones." "In Japan, there is a frontier between life and death, and it’s perched on the steep slopes of a mountain called Kujira-yama, the Mountain of the Whale. That’s where we’re going..." 'How Japan’s Wind Phone Became a Bridge Between Life and Death.'
posted by clavdivs (2 comments total) 8 users marked this as a favorite
 
In the late 70s I worked at a bookstore that had 2 different books about getting phone calls from the dead.
posted by theora55 at 3:15 PM on December 2 [1 favorite]


damn, wasn't expecting to tear up reading that article. japan gets me once again!
posted by donuy at 3:22 PM on December 2


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