Having drawn more than 400 varieties of monsters, Matthew Meyer, 39, published the fourth installment in his yokai encyclopedia series this past summer. Meyer visited Kanazawa, the Ishikawa ...

In this episode of YOKAI: Exploring Japanese Folklore, we track down the legend of the ferocious Ushioni, a Yokai with the hulking body of a bull and an ogre-like face.

What reason could the Tomokazuki have for this behavior? Yokai researcher Michael Dylan Foster gets beneath the surface of the creature.

While Japanese folklore has several Yokai with floating heads, the ones shown in this chapter are similar to Nukekubi. These monsters appear to be ordinary people during the day. However ...

you may encounter "yokai" monsters, also called "bakemono" or "obake." This book has three such monsters: Monmonbyakko, who looks like a personified white fox, Shikkakamokkaka, who has long red ...

this fiscal year on improving its yokai-related facilities, hoping to revitalize local communities with the help of those imaginary creatures. Using Hyogo Prefecture’s subsidy and the hometown ...

While ‘Bloat’ is a refreshing take on the subgenre, a jumbled plot keeps the new screen life film from achieving greatness.