13 CREEPIEST Activities Nobody in Japan Will Do After Dark

Hey guys! We’re now live on Spotify 🎧 https://open.spotify.com/show/033KQbE... At two in the morning, in a shrine wood in Chiba, a seventy two year old man was nailing a straw doll to a sacred tree. In June 2022 the police arrested him, and not for the curse. They charged him for the two holes he left in the tree. Japan has a legal position on that ritual, and the position is that it does not work, which is exactly why they charge you with vandalism instead. These are thirteen things nobody in Japan will do once the sun goes down. Some of them are in a government rulebook. Some come from a story somebody's grandmother told them. A curse ritual performed between one and three in the morning that gets you arrested for property damage. A game with a coin that put five schoolgirls in hospital in one week in 1974 and is still banned in Japanese schools. A rule about chopsticks that is not table manners at all, it is an exact description of a funeral. And a national loudspeaker network that switches on every evening in thousands of Japanese towns to tell children the dark is coming. Almost none of these rules are about being frightened. Every one of them is a small procedure for not accidentally behaving like a dead person. If this is your kind of Japan, the version underneath the travel videos, subscribe. New dives into hidden and abandoned Japan every week. And if this one held you, a like pushes it in front of the next viewer; it helps a small channel more than you would think. Resources: Straw doll of Mr Putin on a sacred tree, 72 year old arrested | Yomiuri Shimbun | https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/20... Ushi no koku mairi | Wikipedia Japan | https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/丑の刻参り Kita-makura | Wikipedia Japan | https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/北枕 What is zuhoku menzai, and how the body is laid by denomination | Sougi.info | https://www.sougi.info/column/column_375 For a test of courage, twelve including high school students caught trespassing, Fukuoka | TNC Television Nishinippon | https://www.tnc.co.jp/news/articles/N... Why is a test of courage a Minor Offences Act violation | Tsunehiko Maeda, Yahoo News Expert | https://news.yahoo.co.jp/expert/artic... Unidentified body found during a test of courage at an Ebino abandoned hotel | The Miyanichi | https://www.the-miyanichi.co.jp/kenna... Why must you not cut your nails at night | Halmek | https://halmek.co.jp/qa/64 Imikotoba to remember when attending a funeral, with substitutions | Osohshiki | https://www.osohshiki.jp/column/artic... Yuyake Chime | Kita City, Tokyo | https://www.city.kita.lg.jp/children-... About the disaster prevention radio | Katsushika City, Tokyo | https://www.city.katsushika.lg.jp/kur... Broadcast times for the Yuyake Koyake chime | Atsugi City | https://www.city.atsugi.kanagawa.jp/s... Matagi | Wikipedia Japan | https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/マタギ Yamakotoba, the taboo words Matagi use in the mountains | National Diet Library Collaborative Reference Database | https://crd.ndl.go.jp/reference/entry... Snakes, Combs and Spiders, 10 Eerie Japanese Superstitions | LIVE JAPAN | https://livejapan.com/en/article-a000... Hanging laundry at night, a Japanese superstition | Wajikan | https://wajikan.com/note/sentakumono/ What is ichizen-meshi, the meaning of standing the chopsticks | Sougi.info | https://www.sougi.info/column/column_420 Why bones are picked up after cremation, hashi-watashi, procedure and etiquette | Osohshiki | https://www.osohshiki.jp/column/artic... New shoes, why you are told not to break them in at night | Hint-Pot | https://hint-pot.jp/archives/190088 A charm for breaking in new shoes, deliberately dirtying the sole | Shoepara | https://shoepara.jp/spn/tips/201/ Why schools banned Kokkuri-san, citing Kitasato University psychiatry papers 1976 and 1979 | Kusanomido | https://kusanomido.com/study/history/... Kokkuri | Wikipedia, citing Michael Dylan Foster, Journal of Asian Studies 65(2), 2006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokkuri Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai | Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyakumo... Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai, The Gathering of 100 Supernatural Tales | Tokyo Weekender | https://www.tokyoweekender.com/art_an... Ghosts riding taxis in the disaster zone, a Tohoku Gakuin University thesis | Asahi Shimbun | https://kako.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/new... Connecting this world and the next, ghost taxis in the disaster area | Shukan Josei PRIME | https://www.jprime.jp/articles/-/7439 Tohoku Gakuin University student builds a thesis from eyewitness accounts | Asagei Plus | https://www.asagei.com/excerpt/54146 #japan #japaneseculture #superstition #afterdark #documentary