‘Wind Phones’ Spread Globally as Tools to Cope with Grief; Disconnected Public Telephone Booths Let People ‘Talk’ to Lost Loved Ones

By Kotaro Hirose / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer
12:23 JST,
July 19, 2025
MORIOKA — Telephone booths modeled after the “Kaze no Denwa” (Wind phone) in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture — a public phone not connected to any network, set up as a place for people who lost loved ones in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake to say the things they wish they could tell the deceased — ha...
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