I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

For the Japanese, summer is when the border between the real world and the spirit world becomes weak, and the legendary yōkai can walk among the living. The yōkai are a complex amalgamation of ...

“Yokai and Other Monsters: From Asian Folklore to Cinema,” will present 12 films featuring bizarre and disturbing creatures from various Asian mythologies, from Japanese yokai to the ...

Taking to LinkedIn, he wrote that for many, a Japanese startup founder choosing to live and work in India is unusual. Most Japanese professionals in the country are corporate expats from industries ...

The white fox with a cloud-like tail consumed the Hito Hito no Mi, Model: Onyudo, which transformed it into an enormous monk based on the mythical Japanese yokai. When Zoro was ... Model: Kyubi No ...

The Japanese yokai Amabie takes on the form of a mermaid while serving traditional roles by foretelling either great harvests or impending epidemics. The appearance of this iconography represents ...

Other objects in the white box included a postcard announcing the cancellation of an art exhibition; a novel "daruma" doll representing Amabie, a legendary Japanese "yokai" monster believed to ...

He is Masanobu Kagawa, the chief curator at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of History, and the first Japanese to get his doctorate in the study of yokai. In an interview with The Asahi Shimbun ...