"Stop the infection from spreading!" The words appear to come straight from the beak of a creature with a bird's head, human hair and a fish's scaly body, in a recent public service announcement from ...

Researchers have discovered three new species of luminescent Polycirrus worms that emit blue-purple light. They named two of them after glowing creatures in Japanese folklore, and the other after the ...

Level-5 is gearing up to release Yo-kai Watch 2 in Japan and this commercial shows some of the Pokémon Japanese folklore creatures you can summon with the Yokai Watch. The Nintendo 3DS sequel includes ...

While working as a top government bureaucrat, Yanagita Kunio (1875–1962) conducted research and dedicated himself to establishing folklore studies as a new academic field in Japan, writing many books.

Japan’s folkloristic landscape is densely populated. Yōkai alone can take plenty of different forms depending on the features these supernatural creatures assume. Some are well received by people (for ...

A team of Japanese scientists is examining a bizarre "mermaid" mummy that has baffled experts for centuries. The mummy, which is possibly around 300 years old or older, appears to have the upper body ...

The second-generation Japanese American artist known as IPaintCreatures (IPC) is a professional award-winning performance poet, painter, filmmaker, Twitch streamer, and 21st-century folklorist who ...

Romanian actor and songwriter Lora has called Mirumi her new best friend and anti-stress medicine. However, it remains ...

A research group from Nagoya University in central Japan has discovered three new species of bioluminescent polycirrus worms from different parts of Japan. Usually found in shallow water, polycirrus ...