Fukusaki (福崎町) is a town located in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Kunio Yanagita, a scholar and folklorist who has been called the ...

Japanese folklore has been a mainstay in anime for ... to name-dropping the Loch Ness Monster; Dandadan is no stranger to mixing and matching myths and legends from all over.

A Japanese feudal-era folklore sea monster with the power to fend off plagues has gone viral as the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic. People in countries as far away as Italy ...

The rampaging monster terrorizes the land ... own eyes the appearance of the great serpent.” Snakes appear in Japanese folklore in myriad forms: as gods, symbols of raging rivers, and the ...

You probably know Godzilla — the "king of monsters." But did you know that he is one of many fictional Japanese monsters? This special monster group is called kaiju. In kaiju movies, the giant ...

Japan-based illustrator Matthew Meyer has drawn over 500 varieties of yokai―supernatural creatures from Japanese folklore. We ask him about his fascination with the phenomenon of yokai.

FUKUI--Amabie, a folklore sea monster with the power to ... and he came up with the idea of drawing Japanese monsters during the Halloween season in October that year. “I learned there were ...