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GHOST STORY

Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Aug 8, 2015
Weeklies' summer specials feature sports, crimefighting, frozen treats and horror
The National High School Summer Baseball Tournament this year observes its 100th anniversary, and Asahi Geino (Aug. 13) recalls 10 hard-fought games at Koshien Stadium that fans still remember. In a short follow-up, the magazine introduces the "new monster," as he's being called, 16-year-old Kotaro Kiyomiya, a member of Tokyo's Waseda Jitsugyo team. While still in his second year of middle school, Kiyomiya reportedly slammed a pitch 160 meters — completely out of the park, leading people to predict he's destined to become the "Japanese Babe Ruth."
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2014
Hato Bus to beef up popular Tokyo ghost story tours
Tokyo sightseeing bus operator Hato Bus Co. said Wednesday it will offer more of its popular bus and boat tours to famous "haunted" places with a professional storyteller.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Aug 24, 2013
Chilling tales are tops when trying to beat the heat
Perhaps stemming from the belief that hearing a scary story will send a chill down the spine and provide welcome relief from the summer heat, August is Japan's favorite season for traditional tales of horror. At local festivals and in theme parks, the obake yashiki (haunted house) is a standby for dating couples. A few of the bolder ones might even head for the sites of historic murders or hauntings, such as the shrine to O-Iwa, located a short walk from Yotsuya-Sanchome Station on the Marunouchi Subway Line. It is said to memorialize a young woman who was killed by an unfaithful husband who coveted her inheritance. She then returned to wreak terrible vengeance, as featured in Tsuruya Nanboku's celebrated 1825 kabuki drama, "Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan."

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