halloween
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Time to cozy up and scare yourself with more spooky tales submitted by Savvy readers. In August, I gathered real ghost stories from people all across Japan to tie up the Obon season and asked for your submissions. I wasn’t disappointed! There are some spooky things happening all across the country. Also, a lot of people live in jiko bukken (stigmatized properties)—way more than I’d thought, to be honest. Here are more scary stories of real-life experiences with the unexplained from all across Japan, in time for Halloween. The hot businessman?I worked in Akasaka and one night when I was on my w...
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Savvy Tokyo
Bringing Halloween to the table in its sweetest taste. I’m really excited to share one of my favorite original recipes, my Japan-inspired Barmbrack! Barmbrack is a traditional Irish fruit cake that is the center of Halloween here in Ireland. The name comes from the Irish words “báirín breac” which translated as “speckled bread.” The recipe is full of flavor with mixed spices and dried fruit, and with my original Japan twist, the kaki (persimmon) fruit adds a lovely moisture to the cake. Traditionally, the dried fruit is soaked in tea overnight, but in busy households like mine and yours, we ne...
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Halloween 2020 is different—so let’s give it a classic Japanese twist!While long-haired specters clad in white are the most Japanese of horror tropes, many of Japan’s ghostly tales come straight out of real life. If you’d like to scare yourself silly for this Halloween in Japan, but aren’t big on visiting a haunted house during a pandemic, why not try a good old fashioned kimodameshi?Testing Your LiverKimodameshi (肝試し or きもだめし), literally means “testing your liver” and is a bravery challenge wherein you (alone or with friends) head into abandoned structures, parks, temples, shrines, and so on ...
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