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Japanese Ghosts – Youkai, Yuurei, Bakemono and Oni

Japanese Ghosts – Youkai, Yuurei, Bakemono and Oni

   Japanese Goblins, Ghosts, Shapeshifters and Devils of the Buddhist Hell are a motley crew ranging from downright funny to ghoulishly scary.   The Kings of Japanese Ghost Stories (Kaidan) are Koizumi Yakumo f/k/a Lafcadio Hearn who wrote Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things in the early 1900s and Shigeru Mizuki who, in the [...]