人面犬 · Yamagata city, Yamagata · 1992
The human-faced dog fled Tokyo because of the fuss
What the record says
The human-faced dog used to live in Tokyo, a first-grader said, but people made such a fuss about it that it ran away to Yamagata.
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.