This playful “title” indicates that the person has appeared in “Bura Tamori,” a weekly educational entertainment TV program broadcast by Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) that ended last month.

But Sengoku-era Japan had its own share of folktales about Yokai - ghosts, spirits, monsters and demons - which were all widely believed by the superstitious public. To the east of Kiyomizudera ...

With the strawberry season gone by, if you too were disappointed with the unpalatable, almost overripe, wilted fruits deviously tucked away in the bottom of the packed box, then you aren’t alone. A ...