The ghost stories of Fukushima evacuees

Record summary

Post-2011 Fukushima evacuation narratives include reports of apparitions, uncanny encounters, and spiritually charged places associated with abandoned homes and restricted zones. This is a useful comparative lead because the accounts sit at the intersection of technological disaster, forced displacement, contamination anxiety, memorialization, and Japanese death traditions. The reports are not a single case file: they come from interviews, local storytelling, journalism, and later scholarship. Their wording, dates, and locations require checking against the original Japanese sources and against conventional explanations involving trauma, isolation, rumor, and environmental uncertainty.