The sorrow, hope and longing of Japan's 'Missing Post Office'

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Visitors read letters addressed to the writers' deceased family members but also to friends and pets.
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By Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Julia Mio Inuma, Hiroki Kobayashi, Yutao Chen, with photography by Hiroki Kobayashi for the Washington Post There are two post offices on Awashima, a remote Japanese island of 150 or so residents. Only one delivers mail to the living.The other hasn’t been officially operational in three decades. Instead, the “Missing Post Office” is a repository for 60,000-plus pieces of mail: letters, birthday cards and New Year’s greetings sent from all over Japan to those with no forwarding address. Lost f...

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