When Halloween time rolls around, most people get excited about costumes, or candy, or even drinking heavily. Pretty much no one ever gets excited about Halloween food (candy doesn't count). Luckily, the Japanese have got … [Read more...]
When I was a kid, I was over at a friend's house and found a magazine with a bunch of comics in it. As I started looking through it, I found a horrifying comic. I'd never really seen a comic like it before, and was really … [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...]
While Japan obviously has its own set of holidays and festivals (some weirder than others), it's adopted a lot of foreign holidays too. Valentine's Day is celebrated in Japan, and Christmas is widely celebrated, even … [Read more...]
Michael from Gakuranman.com is an adventurer. He's currently living in Japan, and one of his favorite things to do is to explore and discover haikyo (abandoned sites / ruins) in Japan. For Tofugu's current series of … [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...]