Some Japanese horror games are distinctly scary ... There is a Japanese Urban Legend about a wrathful yokai (demon) called the Aka Manto, literally meaning Red Cloak. Clad in red, the Aka Manto ...

What do they want? The yokai send messages from the depths of forests, the darkness and the far corners of the ocean. Deities are not the only help the Japanese rely upon in times of distress and ...

In this episode of YOKAI: Exploring Hidden Japanese Folklore, we follow the cry of the Konakijiji, a Yokai that resembles an old man but with a voice like a weeping infant. It's said to lure ...

What makes them scary is that you can't tell them apart ... but vampires are closer in essence to Japanese yokai because they are from East European folklore. Yokai change their forms in line ...

Blame it on the unprecedented volume of high-profile new games of 2023, but I've somehow managed to let this absolutely ...

Kappa is an amphibian “yokai” mythical creature in Japanese folklore that carries water in the depression--or “dish”--on the ...