Play will examine haunted tales from Japan’s 2011 tsunami

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Play will examine haunted tales from Japan’s 2011 tsunami

When the Old Globe commissioned Keiko Green to write a play, she had a specific idea in mind for the project. “I knew that I wanted to write a ghost story,” she recalled. “I had some ideas and I was really drawn to these stories of someone picking up a ghostly passenger in a car.” Those stories originated in Japan, where some taxi drivers in the city of Ishinomaki reported encountering “ghost passengers” in the wake of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake…