A young woman who lost her father during the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami is one of many people who continue to speak about mysterious experiences they have had involving lost relatives and other loved ones.
About 10 days after the quake, Ayane Suto, 28, went to a public bathhouse near where she took shelter from her house in Sendai, and on collecting her shoes again from her locker when leaving, unexpectedly found a white flower in one of them.
At that time, her father, Tsutomu, 54, who was listed as missing in her Miyagi hometown of Kesennuma after the disaster, was still unaccounted for. His body was found several days later.