Once seen as embodying people’s anxieties and fears, yokai -- monsters from Japanese folklore -- are now being embraced in Japan as symbols of diversity and belonging.
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Recently, Osaka has started an add campaign at improving tourist manners, with cartoon characters that illustrate the do's-and-dont's for Guesthouse stays.
The ads are paid for from a fund derived from the accommodation tax.
How much do you know about real ninja? The digital exhibition NINJA: In Fiction and in Reality has lots of materials about both historical ninja and ninja in the world of entertainment. #ndldigital
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Designer, illustrator Eiji Mitooka, the creative mind behind Japan’s most luxurious trains, still has grand designs for the future of the country’s sightseeing railways
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