Tohoku tsunami ghost-sighting and ghost-taxi reports
- Date of account
- 2011 onward; discussed in post-disaster ethnography and journalism
- Location
- Ishinomaki, Sendai, and other Tōhoku communities, Japan
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
After the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, residents and taxi drivers in northeastern Japan reportedly described encounters with apparently deceased passengers, figures near inundated neighborhoods, and other yūrei-like experiences. The material matters for comparison because it links apparition narratives to mass bereavement, displaced bodies, religious practice, and post-disaster memory rather than to a single alleged haunting. Accounts vary by interview, locality, and publication, and some may be retrospective folklore. Researchers should distinguish published ethnography from sensational media retellings and avoid treating culturally framed experiences as verified supernatural events.
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