{"id":2477953,"date":"2025-03-10T13:30:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T13:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2477953\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T13:30:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T13:30:43","slug":"ghostly-encounters-the-legacy-of-the-2011-tsunami-in-japan-witness-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2477953\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghostly encounters: The legacy of the 2011 tsunami in Japan | Witness Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Ghostly encounters: The legacy of the 2011 tsunami in Japan | Witness Documentary\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tr4ULTszi00\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nGhostly encounters: The legacy of the 2011 tsunami in Japan | Witness Documentary<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese city of Kamaishi was almost entirely destroyed in the earthquake and ensuing tsunami of 2011. It was the biggest natural disaster to hit Japan, killing nearly 20,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>More than a decade later, local taxi drivers claim to frequently pick up &#8220;ghost fares&#8221; of the deceased. Passengers spot an increasing number of wild deer which some claim to be\u202fintermediaries between the physical and spiritual worlds. A night with Kamaishi\u2019s taxi drivers reveals a community haunted by its loss while still struggling for closure.<\/p>\n<p>Tsunami Ghosts is a documentary film by Katharine Round.<\/p>\n<p>#aljazeeraenglish #Japan #tsunami #documentary #earthquake #naturaldisasters #kamaishi<\/p>\n<p>More from Witness on:<br \/>\nYouTube: https:\/\/aje.io\/WitnessYouTube<br \/>\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AJWitness<br \/>\nTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJWitness<br \/>\nInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ajwitness\/<br \/>\nWebsite: https:\/\/aje.io\/Witness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghostly encounters: The legacy of the 2011 tsunami in Japan | Witness Documentary The Japanese city of Kamaish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2477954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395391],"tags":[784586,211294,549769,784583,10469,784582,156912,67,784588,1217,620286,68,1225,451,784584,784585,434298,784587,784589,714470,35324,784590,4204,784581,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-2477953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-al-jazeera-documentary","9":"tag-al-jazeera-english","10":"tag-al-jazeera-live","11":"tag-al-jazeera-witness","12":"tag-documentary","13":"tag-ghostly-encounters-the-legacy-of-the-2011-tsunami-in-japan-witness-documentary","14":"tag-ghosts","15":"tag-japan","16":"tag-japan-2011-tsunami","17":"tag-japan-breaking-news","18":"tag-japan-documentary","19":"tag-japan-news","20":"tag-japan-today","21":"tag-japanese","22":"tag-japanese-ghosts","23":"tag-japanese-taxi-drivers","24":"tag-kamaishi","25":"tag-katharine-round","26":"tag-latest-japan","27":"tag-paranormal","28":"tag-spiritual","29":"tag-taxi-driver","30":"tag-tsunami","31":"tag-tsunami-ghosts","32":"tag-233"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2477953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2477954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}