Tōhoku tsunami ghost encounters reported by taxi drivers

Record summary

After the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, taxi drivers and residents in Tōhoku reportedly described passengers who disappeared, requested destinations in destroyed neighborhoods, or were later understood as dead. The reports became a subject of journalism, folklore research, and discussions of trauma, mourning, and narrative transmission. They matter for comparison because they combine contemporary witness testimony with a large-scale disaster context rather than relying on photographs alone. Details vary by interview and publication, and the accounts should be treated as reported narratives, not evidence of surviving spirits.