https://yokainightparade.com/en/Recent content on Yokai Night ParadeHugoenThu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0900https://yokainightparade.com/en/yokai/kappa/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0900https://yokainightparade.com/en/yokai/kappa/A child-sized water yokai whose strength lives in the water held by the dish on its head.https://yokainightparade.com/en/yokai/nopperabo/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0900https://yokainightparade.com/en/yokai/nopperabo/A human-looking figure whose face vanishes when a traveler comes close.https://yokainightparade.com/en/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://yokainightparade.com/en/about/Mission Yokai Night Parade (百鬼夜行) introduces the yokai of Japanese folklore to an international audience — accurately, atmospherically, and with sources. We publish 30-second vertical videos on YouTube and TikTok, and pair each video with a reference article here that restores what a short video must cut: names and readings, regional variations, documented behavior, and where the stories actually come from. Editorial policy Articles distinguish documented tradition from later popular imagery.https://yokainightparade.com/en/privacy/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://yokainightparade.com/en/privacy/Summary Yokai Night Parade is a static website. It has no accounts, no comment system, no contact forms, and — in its current version — no analytics. We do not set cookies, and we do not collect, store, or process personal data on this site. Analytics and cookies No analytics service is currently enabled. If analytics are introduced in the future, this page will be updated first, describing what is measured and by which provider, before any data is collected.https://yokainightparade.com/en/sources/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://yokainightparade.com/en/sources/How this site uses sources Every published yokai article cites at least two sources from the registry below, and where possible at least one primary text or public-institution collection. Citations are managed centrally: articles reference registry entries by ID, so a correction to a source propagates to every article that uses it. What we rely on Academic databases such as the International Research Center for Japanese Studies’ Database of Folklore and Yokai Phenomena, which indexes individual collected accounts by region and period.https://yokainightparade.com/en/series/yokai-files/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://yokainightparade.com/en/series/yokai-files/Yokai Files introduces one yokai of Japanese folklore in a 30-second vertical short. Each episode is paired with an article on this site that adds what a short video must leave out: names and readings, regional variations, documented behavior, and sources. Episodes are numbered in production order. New episodes are published on YouTube and TikTok first, and the article follows here.