Would you spend a night in a haunted house for 88,000 yen? Inside Japan's bizarre real estate job proving homes are ghost-free

Japan's unusual "ghost investigation" job is attracting attention as specialists are being hired to spend an entire night ...

Spend a night in a haunted house, earn 88,000 yen? Inside Japan's unusual ghost-free job

Japan's unusual real estate industry is paying people 88,000 yen to spend a night in allegedly haunted homes and certify them ...
New York Post

Urban explorer discovers ‘ghost town’ full of empty, eerie hotels in Japan: ‘Like a time capsule’

An urban explorer has uncovered a hauntingly preserved resort town in Japan, where towering hotels sit crumbling along a riverside cliff. It’s been untouched for over three decades, according to ...
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Japan supernatural ghosts, goblins and monsters 1700s to now edited by Melanie Eastburn

Foreword / Michael Brand -- Preface : listening today to a warning from the invisible world / Mami Katanka -- Essays. Japan supernatural : untangling realms beyond / Melanie Eastburn -- From the past ...
The New York Times

A Japanese Island Preserves an Ancient and Ghostly Theater Form

Noh was once the entertainment of medieval warriors. Today, remote Sado Islanders embrace one of the world’s oldest surviving types of drama. Shinobu Kamiyama, center, playing the tormented ghost of a ...