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Mail Between Heaven and Earth: On Japan’s Post Office For Letters to the Dead

Summary by Literary Hub
It is called the drifting post, he explained, because the letters drift between heaven and earth. Set within a stretch of coastal woodland, in rural Japan, this post box receives letters written to the dead. Yuji Akagawa, a grandfather in his seventies, was the proprietor and key administrator. “Yesterday was the tenth anniversary,” he told me in March 2024, the first day we met, about the drifting post’s founding. Akagawa was smaller than me, I…
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Literary Hub broke the news on Wednesday, June 17, 2026.
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