For the Japanese, summer is when the border between the real world and the spirit world becomes weak, and the legendary yōkai ...

In this episode of YOKAI: Exploring Hidden Japanese Folklore, we follow the cry of the Konakijiji, a Yokai that resembles an old man but with a voice like a weeping infant. It's said to lure ...

In this episode of YOKAI: Exploring Japanese Folklore, we track down the legend of the ferocious Ushioni, a Yokai with the hulking body of a bull and an ogre-like face. In certain regions of Ehime ...

FUKUI--Amabie, a folklore sea monster ... Meyer said that not only yokai, but also origami, “shoji” paper screen doors and other forms of Japanese culture enjoy deep-rooted popularity in ...

Yokai" who gives serious thought to these folklore creatures. He is Masanobu Kagawa, the chief curator at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of History, and the first Japanese to get his doctorate in ...