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

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 ...

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 ...

Japanese folklore has been a mainstay in anime for ... to name-dropping the Loch Ness Monster; Dandadan is no stranger to ...

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 ...

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.