TOKYO — The pet of choice in Japan, as much as cuddly kitties and playful puppies, is the humble bug. The bug has been a key ...

About 300 miles off the coast of Tokyo, researchers aboard a deep-sea submersible sank below the surface of the water.

The tsuchinoko, a creature resembling a fat snake that you wouldn’t want to anger, is the star of a new film that uses the mythical animal to explore how Japan has changed since the mid-20th ...

Discover the fascinating origins of the Mongolian Death Worm and Tsuchinoko in Yukinobu Tatsu's hit anime series Dandadan.

Remains said to be those of this mythical creature are going on display in Miyakonojo, Japan Scientists have not confirmed that the bones are from what many believe to be the Kappa ...

Sushi fans will probably know that cucumber rolls are known as kappamaki in Japanese. This is in honor of what is surely one of Japan's strangest mythical creatures — the kappa.

It's creepy, but it's also lovely. Ghostwire: Tokyo's universe has been extensively renovated to portray a realistic replica of Tokyo in a world inhabited by Japanese mythological creatures.

One of the first to highlight these shortcomings in Western scientific rationalism was the American writer Charles Hoy Fort (1874-1932), who named his most important work "The Book of the Damned" ...

TOKYO — The 2019 Rugby World Cup has its mascots: Two mythical, lion-like creatures that were believed in ancient Japan to chase away evil and bring happiness. The Japanese mascots, named “Ren ...