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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 1960s, wrote the popular Gegege no […]

Shinjuku Halloween Protest 2009

Let me first point out that I am not the original source for this picture.  If you would like to see more of the original sources pictures or read the story please go here.  Well, others may have experienced this but it’s a first for me.   I have never participated in the annual Yamanote line Halloween […]