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

The Japanese water yokai, kappa. Kappa translates to "river child," but there are more than 100 variations of the name, and while described as childlike in appearance, their behavior certainly is not.

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 ...

In Japan, yokai are characterized by the spirit of invention. “Anything can be made into a yokai, even things that we don’t know exist yet,” said Kazuhiko Komatsu, professor emeritus of ...