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Yokai: Japanese Halloween Monsters

Halloween is a frothy foreign import in Japan, an excuse to have a party and eat sweets. Monsters, though, are a more serious matter.

Watch this video made by Blaine Harden for the Washington Post for a list of otherworldly monsters, or “Yokai,” which make Halloween in Japan an extra creepy occasion. Happy haunting!