For the Japanese, summer is when the border between the real world and the spirit world becomes weak, and the legendary yōkai ...

The first installment in his encyclopedia series, titled “The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons,” was ... Meyer feels the yokai craze continues to grow outside Japan. He organized autograph ...

From Japan’s yokai to West Virginia’s Mothman, embark on a monster hunting trip through 5 museums celebrating eerie legends.

In ancient Japan, that uncanny "something" was thought to be "yokai," ghouls and hobgoblins ... During the Heian Period (794-1185), "oni" demons (with horns and fangs) represented what we now ...

In this episode of YOKAI: Exploring Japanese Folklore, we track down the legend of the ferocious Ushioni, a Yokai with the hulking body of a bull and an ogre-like face. In certain regions of Ehime ...

Japanese people know all about the Kappa - a slippery water demon from ancient folklore. The pond and river-dwelling monsters are typically depicted as human-like but with the scaly green or blue ...

In this episode of YOKAI: Exploring Hidden Japanese Folklore, we follow the cry of the Konakijiji, a Yokai that resembles an old man but with a voice like a weeping infant. It's said to lure ...