“Ghost houses are all about hospitality,” says the manager of Obaken, one of the scariest haunted houses in all of Japan. Indeed, Japanese haunted houses, or obakeyashiki are on a completely different ...

Be careful walking alone in the wee hours of the night, Japan is full of ghosts, ghouls and other characters lurking in shadowy corners. I’m talking, of course about yurei (ghosts of the deceased) and ...

Despite the genre’s popularity, none fill the niche of telling true campfire-style scary stories quite as well as Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories.

The anticipated game, Ghost of Yotei, will follow a woman on a quest for vengeance in the snowy reaches of northern Japan.