Uncanny Japan - Japanese Folklore, Folktales, Myths and Language
A podcast by Uncanny Productions
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150 Episodes
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Your Own Personal Buddha (Ep. 107)
Published: 8/31/2022 -
The Unconnected Dead: Muenbotoke (Ep. 106)
Published: 8/15/2022 -
The Sickle Weasel: Kamaitachi (Ep. 105)
Published: 7/31/2022 -
Another Chilling Children’s Song – Tōryanse (Ep. 104)
Published: 7/17/2022 -
Final Listeners' True Spooky Tales - Weeping, Drowning, and Big Wall Blocking (Ep. 103)
Published: 6/30/2022 -
Listeners' True Spooky Stories: Forest Phantoms and the Black-Nosed Man (Ep. 102)
Published: 6/16/2022 -
Listeners' Absolutely True Japanese Ghost Stories Part 2 (Ep. 101)
Published: 5/31/2022 -
Listeners' Absolutely True Ghost Stories: Haunted Houses (Ep. 100)
Published: 5/16/2022 -
The Cat Grave, The Rat Grave: Nekozuka, Nezumizuka (Ep. 99)
Published: 4/30/2022 -
Toilet Gods: Yes! There are More Than One! (Ep. 98)
Published: 4/18/2022 -
Supernatural Cats: Nekomata (Ep. 97)
Published: 3/31/2022 -
The Killing Stone: Sessho Seki (Ep. 96)
Published: 3/15/2022 -
The Human-Faced Tumor: Jinmensou (Ep.95)
Published: 2/28/2022 -
Introducing the Uncanny Robot Podcast
Published: 2/18/2022 -
Story Time: Tango no Hitobashira / The Human Pillar of Tango (Ep. 94)
Published: 2/16/2022 -
The Ferocious Oni (Ep. 93)
Published: 1/30/2022 -
Chindon-ya: Eccentric Street Musicians (Ep. 92)
Published: 1/15/2022 -
Good Luck Superstitions in Japan (Ep. 91)
Published: 12/30/2021 -
Mayoiga: The Mysterious House You Find When You’re Lost (Ep. 90)
Published: 12/17/2021 -
Sakuragaike: A Tortured Snake-Dragon Loses it Scales, Pt 2 (Ep. 89)
Published: 12/2/2021
Speculative fiction writer, long-term resident of Japan and Bram Stoker Award finalist Thersa Matsuura explores all that is weird from old Japan—strange superstitions, folktales, cultural oddities, and interesting language quirks. These are little treasures she digs up while doing research for her writing.