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

The Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) is gearing up to host its Year 4 Championship in Sapporo, Japan, anticipated to draw ...

Urban legends anime has a long history of adapting Japanese urban myths and folktales into shows that fuse horror, mystery, and the supernatural. Many anime series draw from ancient paranormal ...

Junji Ito is one of the most renowned horror manga artists around, and his works come to life in Dead by Daylight's latest ...

An expert on Japanese mythology looks at how serpents have been revered—and feared— through the ages in Japan. In Japan and throughout the world, snakes are prominent characters in mythology ...

A new anime series based on Ghost of Tsushima, developer Sucker Punch's award-winning PS5 open-world role-playing game, was ...

Crunchyroll announced a new anime series adapted from Sucker Punch Productions’ popular “Ghost of Tsushima” video game.

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 ...

She's the most powerful Yokai of all." Just like most Yokai in Dandadan, the Slit-Mouthed Woman is inspired by a real Japanese folklore called the Kuchisake-onna. It’s unclear when or where this ...

The film is a horror anthology and features four unrelated ghost stories. The film is based on the Japanese folklore stories collected by Lafcadio Hearn, mainly his 1904 work Kwaidan: Stories and ...

In this episode of YOKAI: Exploring Hidden Japanese Folklore, we journey to the Shima Peninsula of Mie Prefecture, where legend tells of the Tomokazuki. When shell divers descended into the ocean ...