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Itaru Sasaki set up a phone booth in his backyard. Although the phone is not connected to anything, it comforted him to talk through it to a cousin who died from cancer. The following year when a tsunami took the lives of thousands in the region, their relatives also started to show up in Sasaki's garden to use the phone to communicate with lost loved ones. Don't miss this powerful doucmentary on love and how people deal with los, as story that is not so much Japanese as universal (it was also featured on the public radio program This American Life). This is a special screening of the NHK doucmentary (50 minutes) on temporary loan to MSU from NHK and the Japanese Consulate in Detroit.

Sponsored by the MSU Japan Council and the Asian Studies Center.