The Five Elders — also known as the Gorosei — were first introduced during the Jaya Arc early in Luffy's journey; however, ...

I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

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 ...

What do they want? The yokai send messages from the depths of forests, the darkness and the far corners of the ocean. Deities are not the only help the Japanese rely upon in times of distress and ...

In this episode of YOKAI: Exploring Hidden Japanese Folklore, we journey to the Shima Peninsula of Mie Prefecture, where legend tells of the Tomokazuki. When shell divers descended into the ocean ...