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Summer is Japan’s spooky season when people enjoy sharing ghostly tales, superstitions and scary urban legends for chilling goosebumps. Obon, in August, is particularly spooky because it is when the spirits of the deceased return to the world of the living. But some tales are not just stories. The country has its fair share of unsolved mysteries, from cold murder cases to disappearances that seem almost supernatural. Here are seven of the creepiest real-life mysteries from Japan. 1. The Setagaya Family MurderOn the night of December 30, 2000, four members of the Miyazawa family were brutally m...
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Every summer, Japan is bombarded with films and stories about ghosts and yokai (goblins). After all, summer is the time of Obon, a festival when the world of the dead is closer to that of the living. However, it’s not the only haunted season. We first told you about yuki-onna, a snow demon who steals the breath of travelers lost in the snow. In A Survival Guide to Japan’s Winter Monsters, there are plenty more yokai and yurei (ghosts) that embody the spirit of winter. Here are five of them. 1. The avalanche riderNiigata Prefecture is on the Sea of Japan coast and gets covered in snow yearly. W...
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What is it about the harvest season that is so horrifying? Perhaps it is the importance that the season used to have or how it heralds the end of the productive season and the beginning of the barren season. Still, harvest is associated with some of the most terrifying monsters ever. Think of the terrors of Children of the Corn or Blair Witch Project in America. Harvest horrors in Japan tend to be very different from other countries. Gaijinpot goes in search of the horrors of the harvest featuring some yokai (creatures from Japanese folklore) you probably haven’t heard of. 1. AmabieNowadays wh...
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