In this article, we’ll be talking about the Japanese yokai of spring. Spring yokai tends towards natural phenomena, like plants and animals. After all, spring is when the natural world comes alive ...

Another was a lizard with a long tongue that licked off the faces of subway riders in thrall to their cellphones. In Japan, yokai are characterized by the spirit of invention. “Anything can be ...

"To the Japanese ... show's highlights. A long-necked woman ("rokurokubi") installation at the gallery adds to the yokai Instagram fun, especially if you can imagine her neck threading her ...

Essentially, yokai are supernatural entities from Japanese folklore that have existed in myths and legends for as long as there have been stories to tell. Similar to fairies, nymphs or sprites ...

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.

“[Yokai] generally occupy a spiritual zone somewhere between kami (Shintō gods or spirits) and oni,” says John Pavel Kehlen, professor of Asian literature at Soka University of America.

Yokai are Japanese folkloric imaginary monsters such as demons, ghosts that have captivated people’s imaginations for centuries and has long been a part of Japanese folklore tales, embodying ...