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 ...

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 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.

A yokai (monster) called Aosagibi dating from at least the 1700s depicts an aosagi or goisagi that perches in a tree, glowing with an eerie blue fire. Sightings of the glowing bird speculate that ...

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 ...

Japan culled over 17 million chickens this season amid its worst bird flu outbreak ever, per NHK. Local governments and farmers are having problems finding suitable land to bury chicken carcasses ...

Yokai is a new Japanese-inspired listening bar and restaurant in San Francisco from the chef Marc Zimmerman, serving skewers, small plates, and more.