Japanese Occult– category –

English Version In Japan, clapping is usually a gesture of joy, celebration, or blessing. You bring your palms together to applaud someone, offer congratul

English Version In Japan, many people have heard the word yaku-doshi, often translated as an unlucky year or a year of misfortune. But what does it actuall

English Version For this New Year travel story, I want to write about Kuki Yoshitaka’s head mound on Toshi Island in Mie Prefecture. For some reason, when

English Version Have you ever heard of Sagicho? In many parts of Japan, it is also known as Dondo-yaki or Tondo-yaki. Sagicho is a fire festival usually he

English Version In Zentsuji City, Kagawa Prefecture, on Japan’s island of Shikoku, stands Zentsuji Temple, a place traditionally associated with the birthp

English Version A child vanishes after an adult looks away for only a moment. Many people in Japan have seen stories like this on the news. They are someti

English Version Have you ever heard of Yomotsu Hegui, a term that appears in the Kojiki, one of Japan’s oldest mythological texts? In simple terms, it mean

English Version The Kyushu University Vivisection Incident refers to human experiments carried out in 1945, while Japan was fighting World War II, at the m

English Version Some things seem simple until you look closer. Omikuji, the paper fortunes drawn at shrines and temples across Japan, are one of them. Mayb

English Version In this installment of our ley line series, we turn to Mount Fuji, Japan’s highest mountain. Mount Fuji is an active volcano standing 3,776