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A Japanese urban legend dating back to the Taishō period, that saw a significant resurgence after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, is a trend of taxi drivers who say that they picked up a passenger, often drenched or cold, who then disappears before reaching their destination, often leaving behind evidence of their presence such as a ...
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Hometown Rebuilding: Folktales from Japan (ふるさと 再生 （ さいせい ） 日本 （ にっぽん ） の 昔 （ むかし ） ばなし, Furusato Saisei: Nippon no Mukashi Banashi) is a 258-episode long Japanese anime television series that adapts various traditional stories from Japan. Each episode of this anime comprises three ...
Toshi (トシ), a character in the film Moon Child; Toshi Tsukikage (月影 トシ), a character in the anime series Soar High! Isami; Toshi Yoshida (トシ・ヨシダ), a character in the television series American Dad!
Screenshot from Twilight Syndrome: Tansaku-hen with Yukari, Chisato, and Mika in a classroom. The game features pseudo-3D graphics for levels. [1]The games are set in contemporary Japan, and follow high school students investigating urban legends about ghosts and other paranormal events in their school and neighborhood.
Japanese anthropologist Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney explains the idiom saru wa ke ga sanbon tarinai (猿は毛が三本足りない, "a monkey is [a human] minus three pieces of hair"): "The literal meaning of this saying is that the monkey is a lowly animal trying to be a human and therefore is to be laughed at. [1]
Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō [a] (南無妙法蓮華経) are Japanese words chanted within all forms of Nichiren Buddhism. In English, they mean "Devotion to the Mystic Law of the Lotus Sutra" or "Glory to the Dharma of the Lotus Sutra". [2] [3] The words 'Myōhō Renge Kyō' refer to the Japanese title of the Lotus Sūtra.
Toshimitsu Deyama (Japanese: 出山 利三, Hepburn: Deyama Toshimitsu, born October 10, 1965), known exclusively by his stage name Toshi, [Note 1] is a Japanese singer and songwriter who is the lead vocalist and a co-founder of the rock band X Japan, who rose to prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s and is credited as founders of the visual kei movement.