Yomi-no-kuni, or just Yomi for short, is the captivating underworld of Japanese mythology. Our adventure begins at the entrance to Yomi, where a dark and mystical forest marks the boundary between the ...

"Miss Ishikawa" traveled in luxury, received dignitaries’ welcomes and carried the weight of international goodwill on her small frame. Now, she is ready for her next chapter—nearly 100 years later.

Dotting a remote village in western Japan, a population of life-sized dolls outnumber actual humans 10 to one, a result of depopulation that has affected areas throughout the Prefectures. To help ...

The Montana Historical Society has a visitor from Japan to help restore its Japanese friendship doll, one of only 58 created and 46 that are still intact.

"Both of the parties have no interest in solving this problem, because they use that to raise money," the former California ...

Upon release back in 2020, American developer Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Tsushima was generally well-received for its fictionalized depiction of historical Japan. The game’s director Nate Fox ...

The iconic Japanese dolls range from a couple of inches to several feet in height, and there are thousands of them at the 1,300-year-old temple, located about an hour from downtown Osaka in Minoh ...

According to the story Okiku was purchased by a man sometime around 1918 in Japan. He wanted to gift it to his ... She has real human hair. The doll now resides at Zak Bagans of Ghost Adventures’ ...

This special mechanism makes her unique for doll collectors ... with a Chinese aesthetic; and Japan’s Kiyomi Haunterly, daughter of the noppera-bo or faceless ghost, in 2014.

This haunted Japanese doll has left people SHOCKED! 😨 Known as Okiku, this eerie doll’s hair NEVER stops growing, and no one knows why! Scientists and spiritualists alike are baffled—could ...

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories (Image via ILCA ... Ai will appear to offer them a straw doll. If they pull the red string, their target will immediately be taken to hell.