Monday 17 February 2014

Tsunami Ghosts

"I met a priest in the north of Japan who exorcised the spirits of people who had drowned in the tsunami. The ghosts did not appear in large numbers until later in the year, but Reverend Kaneda’s first case of possession came to him after less than a fortnight. He was chief priest at a Zen temple in the inland town of Kurihara. The earthquake on 11 March 2011 was the most violent that he, or anyone he knew, had ever experienced. The great wooden beams of the temple’s halls had flexed and groaned with the strain."

Book Extract: Ghosts of the Tsunami by Richard Lloyd Parry (London Review of Books)

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n03/richard-lloydparry/ghosts-of-the-tsunami

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