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

The PBS series Monstrum examined the ancient Japanese legend of Bake-kujira, a ghostly whale that seeks vengeance on humans.

For the Japanese, summer is when the border between the real world and the spirit world becomes weak, and the legendary yōkai can walk among the living. The yōkai are a complex amalgamation of ...

Meyer feels the yokai craze continues to grow outside Japan. He organized autograph-signing ... He is best remembered for his books about legends and ghost stories. “There is a need for easy ...