Hiroki Kobayashi

2 months ago | msn.com | Michelle Lee |Julia Mio Inuma |Hiroki Kobayashi |Yutao Chen

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2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Michelle Ye Hee Lee |Julia Mio Inuma |Hiroki Kobayashi |Yutao Chen

Hiroki Kobayashi and February 8, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. ESTJust nowAWASHIMA ISLAND, Japan — There are two post offices on this 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.