A chartered bullet train filled with thrill-seekers descended into a zombie apocalypse just in time for Halloween.

Despite Japan's popular subculture of dressing up in elaborate costumes, called cosplay, Halloween used to be limited to not much more than a handful of foreign residents dressing up in costumes ...

Reader Steve T. sent in some awesome papercraft from JAMSTEC, the Japanese Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. You can print out a paper from a .pdf file. Don’t be dismayed by the japanese ...

Some of our grape Japan readers may recall the amazing creations of Japanese papercraft artist 空箱職人 はるきる Harukiru (@02ESyRaez4VhR2l), who takes paper packaging of things like sweets, snacks, beverages ...

In 2014, Japanese website Daily Portal Z began holding a “jimi Halloween”—“mundane Halloween”—celebration. According to the blog Spoon & Tamago, those who started “mundane Halloween ...

This Papercraft skull has a tab on the back that you can pull and make it talk, scaring the children, and maybe even your pets. Download the PDF, and you can make one for yourself, just in time ...

Halloween is not widely celebrated in Japan, but Japanese theme parks create elaborate Halloween events, including new rides and decorations. This is one of the few places where they've seen ...

Inspired by the big head mode in retro video games, Eric Testroete created this trippy papercraft self portrait for Halloween last weekend. The geometric look uses 370 individual paper triangles ...

A Japanese mafia gang has been forced to cancel its annual Halloween party - over fears the event could be mired in violence. The Yamaguchi-gumi Yakuza clan, based in the south-western city of ...

For the usually reserved Japanese, Halloween has become the perfect excuse to act wild in strange outfits. The spooky celebration is consuming the energy, fashion sense and wallets of people for ...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan (Nov. 14, 2015) -- About 200 Japanese and American Girls' Scouts participated in the 11th annual two-day Halloween Camp held at Ashigara Fureai no Mura (a Kanagawa Prefecture ...