From Richard Lloyd Parry’s wonderful new book Ghosts of the Tsunami, reporting on Japan’s drowned spirits.

The Morning News http://ift.tt/2yGete2

Tsunamis anywhere destroy property and kill the living, but in Japan they inflict a third kind of injury, unique and invisible, on the dead. At a stroke, thousands of spirits had passed from life to death; countless others were cut loose from their moorings in the afterlife... In such circumstances, how could there fail to be a swarm of ghosts?

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