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

Tim Anderson’s new book, Hokkaido, is inspired by Japan’s northernmost prefecture, where Western influences and Indigenous ...

Tuttle Publishing announced that Tales of the Kyoto Ghost Priest: True Horror Stories from Japan, the manga edition, will ...

Jujutsu Kaisen draws inspiration from Japanese mythology. Here's a look at the mythology behind Ryomen Sukuna's character.

In Japan and throughout the world, snakes are prominent characters in mythology, from menacing creatures to guardian deities to awe-inspiring symbols of transformation and rebirth. The earliest ...

It might be a long shot, but Ghost of Yotei could show an entirely different side of one of Ghost of Tsushima's most iconic ...

one of the most well-known yokai in Japanese folklore. According to myth, old paper umbrellas in Japan will transform into this creature with one eye, one leg, and a long tongue after a certain ...

In Skamania County, external, where the pair went missing, a person could get a year in jail or a $1,000 fine if one of the folklore creatures is "harmed".

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories ... has all the makings of a classic urban legends anime filled with death, disappearances, and terrifying creatures inspired by existential dread and urban ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto Hundreds of feet below the surface of the ocean, a submersible robot explored an underwater mountain off the coast of Japan. A “flower”-like sea creature caught the ...

Walking into the living room of folk artist Bruce Peterson’s Gordonston ... Everywhere one looks are brightly colored papier-mâché creatures―suspended from the ceiling, on shelves, on ...