'Missing Post Office' keeps accepting letters, postcards

'Missing Post Office' keeps accepting letters, postcards

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Katsuhisa Nakata, 80-year-old director of "Missing Post Office," drops a postcard into a tin box in the office on the island of Awashima in Mitoyo, Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan, as seen in this file photo taken in November 2014. The post office was created by artist Saya Kubota to accept unaddressed postcards and letters in which senders write messages to whomever they want to, such as deceased family members.

Visitors read postcards sent to 'Missing Post Office'

Visitors read postcards sent to 'Missing Post Office'

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Visitors to "Missing Post Office" on the island of Awashima in Mitoyo, Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan, read postcards sent to the office as 80-year-old postmaster Katsuhisa Tanaka looks on in this file photo taken in November 2014. The post office was created by artist Saya Kubota to accept unaddressed postcards and letters in which senders write messages to whomever they want to, such as deceased family members.

Japanese island to become home for Brits' messages to absent friends

Japanese island to become home for Brits' messages to absent friends

This photo taken on Feb. 9, 2016, shows Saya Kubota (L) and Brian Payne speaking to an audience at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in London about the "Missing Post Office." Kubota and Payne, dressed in their specially designed MPO uniforms, have been collecting letters from British people to absent friends, relatives and lovers as part of a participatory arts project. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japanese island to become home for Brits' messages to absent friends

Japanese island to become home for Brits' messages to absent friends

This photo taken on Feb. 9, 2016, shows artist Saya Kubota talking about her "Missing Post Office" project at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in London. She is collecting letters from British people to absent friends and relatives and the correspondence will go on show on the island of Awashima, Kagawa Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

'Missing Post Office' keeps accepting letters, postcards

'Missing Post Office' keeps accepting letters, postcards

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Katsuhisa Nakata, 80-year-old director of "Missing Post Office," drops a postcard into a tin box in the office on the island of Awashima in Mitoyo, Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan, as seen in this file photo taken in November 2014. The post office was created by artist Saya Kubota to accept unaddressed postcards and letters in which senders write messages to whomever they want to, such as deceased family members. (Kyodo)