If you happen to be a ghost hunter and you're in Japan for the summer, there's no need to worry about job security. Summer is Japan's ghost season, and the month of August is when it peaks. August is the month of the … [Read more...]
Earlier this year I got a nice surprise in the mail: Tuttle Publishing sent me three books: Ninja Attack!, Yokai Attack!, and the new Yurei Attack!. The books were written by Matt Alt and Hiroko Yoda, a husband and wife … [Read more...]
Japanese folklore has a rich and terrifying tradition of all sorts of zany ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and goblins. Japanese ghosts collectively known as yūrei (幽霊), and Japanese monsters collectively known as yōkai (妖怪) are … [Read more...]
"Moshi Moshi" is probably something you've seen or heard before. In Japanese, it's used when answering the telephone, and roughly means "hello" or "hi." You're not really going to see this word used off the phone too much … [Read more...]