People in Japan are seeking out “haunted houses” to beat the heat. Summer in Japan has long been associated with the dead, as ancestral souls are thought to return to their homes during the mid-August ...

In Japan, tunnels are a common feature of the landscape, and this video delves into the haunting ghost stories associated ...

Halloween may not be for months, but it's already peak haunted house season in Japan, where seeking a bone-chilling fright is a long-established summer tradition. Summer is closely associated with the ...

He won’t get boo. A boozed-up karate expert in Japan shattered the jaw of a worker dressed as a ghost because he got startled at a haunted house — then took the spooky theme park to court and lost, ...

Join us as we delve into the eerie world of Japan’s haunted vending machines, where the ordinary meets the supernatural. In this chilling exploration, we uncover the mysterious legends and ...

The mythology around Japan as a nation of everyday ghosts — where the living and the dead share space, occasionally in view of each other — can lead certain western filmmakers into dubious territory: ...

Every August, the Keifuku Electric Railroad company in Kyoto, Japan runs a series of “ghost trains” or “yokai trains” on weekend evenings. On these trains, spirits and monsters from Japanese mythology ...

Surging bear numbers, scarce food and fewer hunters mean another disaster on the scale of the Sankebetsu massacre cannot be ...

Unconfirmed believer in the paranormal and full-time prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, still hasn't moved into the Koutei, a Tokyo mansion where prime ministers of Japan are supposed to live, since ...

Unable to write since the death of her husband years before, a French author journeys to Japan and learns to let go in Élise Girard's mellow, modest charmer. Premiering in the Venice Days sidebar at ...