人面犬 · Nanokamachi, Yamagata city, Yamagata · 1992
Where the human-faced dog appears
What the record says
The place where the human-faced dog appears, according to the same first-grader, is around Nanokamachi in the centre of Yamagata city.
Our summary in English of the record as catalogued; the original card is in Japanese.
In our articles
Jinmenken
人面犬（じんめんけん）
Jinmenken, the dog with a human face, swept through Japanese children's rumour around 1989–90. A first-grader in Yamagata had his own version: the dog had left Tokyo because people would not stop talking about it.