Male Japanese quails produce a strange seminal foam that appears to enhance the chances of successfully fertilizing an egg.

Kappa is a truly Japanese yokai. While some yokai originate in China or are inspired by Chinese folklore, the kappa is Japan through and through. And kappas are obsessed with butts, so hang on to ...

Cats have been an ever-present part of Japanese culture for hundreds of years: sometimes cherished as devoted protectors of ...

Japan could be said to be a country of yokai (ghosts). Often called goblins in English, yokai are much more varied than that poor translation suggests. These folklore beasties, like European fairies, ...

In the pantheon of yokai, spooky beings of Japanese folklore embody anxieties ancient and modern. On Shodoshima, an art contest helps bring new ones to life.

Shodoshima, a small island in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea, celebrates yokai, the mischievous, occasionally demonic, spooks of traditional Japanese folklore.

Fukusaki (福崎町) is a town located in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Kunio Yanagita, a scholar and folklorist who has been called the father of Japanese folklore studies, was born in this town of ...

Yokai Parade: Supernatural Monsters From Japan is showing at MIACC Gallery, Malaysian Institute of Art (MIA) City Campus, Jalan Ampang in KL until Dec 3. Open: Monday-Sunday, 10am-5pm. Free admission.

Japan has lost so many chickens to bird flu, it’s now running out of land to bury them. Japanese state broadcaster NHK reported Tuesday that 16 out of 26 prefectures in the country did not have ...