Ghosts arise when someone dies and their spirit cannot move on to the afterlife, either because the funeral rites weren’t completed or because the person died violently or with unfinished business.Ī successful spirit is believed to join its ancestors in the afterlife to watch over their remaining living family. Japanese stories featuring ghosts are firmly rooted in the belief in the spirit world. (Download) The Spiritual Beliefs at the Heart of Scary Japanese Stories
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This blog post is available as a convenient and portable PDF that youĬlick here to get a copy. Thanks to some popular movies, Japan is world-renowned for its seriously creepy ghosts and monsters.įun fact: Ghost stories are apropos of October in the West, but in Japan ghost stories tend to be told in the summer.Įven so, in the spirit of Halloween, let’s take a look at some scary ghost stories from Japan and see if they make you slam your laptop closed and run away in fear. Japanese mythology is full of things that’ll give you the creeps.ĭid you get a chill seeing waterlogged Samara crawl through televisions in “The Ring”? Or hearing that freaky cat-boy meow in “The Grudge”? This ghost gives you no choice: Learn the correct Japanese answer to her odd question or die. If you met Japan’s Slit-Mouthed Woman in a dark Tokyo alley, would you know what to do? FebruJapanese Lessons from the Crypt: 13 Scary Stories That Teach Language and Culture
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