Discover Japan’s Dark Side

Hanamaki Matsuri in Iwate features over 100 mikoshi paraded through city streets each September, reflecting centuries of local festival culture.

English Version Iimoriyama in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima, is best known as the hill where the Byakkotai, a unit of teenage soldiers from the Aizu Domain, di

English Version Kamafusa Dam in Ono, Kawasaki Town, Shibata District, Miyagi Prefecture, is surrounded by several unsettling rumors. Locals and visitors ha

English Version Takizawa Pass in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, is said to have a strange and dangerous roadside legend. According to the rumor, if you are driv

English Version In Japan, a “pension” is a small Western-style guesthouse or inn. The place commonly known in ghost-spot circles as the “Ghost Pension” is

English Version In front of Nagareyama City Hall in Chiba Prefecture is the site of a former execution ground known as Hichiyama, a name often interpreted

English Version In 1989, a man in New Zealand claimed he was abducted by aliens in the mountains and spent 10 days in an extraterrestrial civilization. His

Discover how Aizuwakamatsu’s Aizu Festival in September transforms the city into a vivid procession of samurai and eras from its storied past.

English Version Suzuran Pass is said to have a haunted reputation, especially around the first sharp curve when entering from the Sendai side. According to

English Version After liberating Orléans, Joan of Arc turned toward the goal she said had been given to her by the “voices” from the beginning: the coronat