Category: Stories

This is an incident experienced by a certain exchange student.
He was simply on his way home—until he noticed something wrong in the train window’s reflection.

—You wish to hear it, do you?
Very well… keep your light close.

An occult magazine editor spent years chasing the kunekune—until the day he finally saw it.

—You wish to hear it, then.
So be it… but keep your light close.

It happened to a foreign employee working late in a certain office building in Japan.

—You wish to hear it, then.
So be it… but keep your light close.

It happened to a man who came to Japan seeking the traces of his grandfather— but what he found was not the past.

—You wish to hear it, then.
So be it… but keep your light close.

This is the story of a foreign student in Tokyo, and the doll he brought home from a flea market in Yoyogi Park.

—You wish to hear it, then.
So be it… but keep your light close.

This is what happened to a foreign man who had just begun living in Japan,
when he tried to film a simple video of the underground mall beneath Shinjuku Station.

—You wish to hear it, then.
So be it… but keep your light close.

This is the account of a foreign couple who booked an old apartment in Japan through a rental app.

—You wish to hear it, then.
So be it… but keep your light close.

Masakado’s Kubizuka, the burial mound of his severed head.This is the account of a group of young tourists who visited Tokyo.

—You wish to hear it, then.
So be it… but keep your light close.

This is a tale from a small port town in the Seto Inland Sea.
It happened to a young couple who had come there on a brief journey.

—You wish to hear it, then.
So be it… but keep your light close.