Spooking Yourself While Social Distancing
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 ...