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Strange Japan
- Hauntings, Cults, Unsolved Mysteries, UFOs, True Crime and Bizarre Accounts of Unexplained
- Narrated by: Duke Holm
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
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Summary
Hauntings, cults, unsolved mysteries, UFOs, true crime, and bizarre accounts of unexplained phenomena.
Warning: This book will give you the creeps!
Welcome to the dark side of Japan. Real accounts of strange events, horrifying crimes, dangerous cults, disappearances, and more!
After a strange phone call to her boyfriend and some strange unexplained behavior, a schoolgirl goes missing on her way to her part-time job.
A group kidnaps the president of a candy corporation, demanding millions of dollars.
An abandoned school is said to be the most haunted location of Japan.
A left-wing extremist extremist group commits a series of unsettling crimes.
A captain and his flight crew of Japanese Airlines see a massive UFO in 1986.
A group of schoolgirls drive to a haunted location never to be heard from ever again.
Living ghost soldiers of the Japanese army that fought the war for almost 30 years!
These are just of few of the stories that are in this book. Some stories will give you the creeps, the chills. Some will leave you frightened, while others will leave you baffled by there unexplainable nature.
What's inside:
- True crime: monster with 21 faces
- The case of Tsubono spa
- The mystery money that appeared in Japan
- Poisoned drink murder mystery
- North Korean kidnappings
- The legend of Yamashita's Gold
- The living Japanese ghost soldiers who fought WW2 for almost 30 years
- Multiple possessions at a Japanese high school
- Japan's most haunted location: abandoned school of Hokkaido
- The deadly Aum Shinrikyo cult
- A Japanese politician was killed or was he assassinated
- The man from Taured
- The Asama-Sanso incident
- Tokyo's haunted park: human experiments of WW2
- Doryo temple haunting: murder, suicide, and a Japanese temple
- Strange phone call: Muroran high school girl disappearance
- Kokkuri, Japanese Ouija board game
- Hibagon: Japanese bigfoot sightings
- Urban legend: Alice murder mystery of Japan 1999-2005
- UFO encounter of flight 1628
- The haunted Kleenex commercial
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- S. Morris
- 09-07-21
Interesting, But...
I dithered about getting this book because of its short lent compared with the asking price. I wasn't going to use a credit for something less than 3 hours long and so purchased this title at a 53% discount during a recent sale on Audible.
This book is a collection of short stories on some of the odd, unusual and downright weird events and urban legends from Japan. Given that Japan, it's culture and people have always interested me, I decided to go for this book despite the, at the time, lone and rather negative review. Knowing the oddities of Japanese culture, I figured that the weird stories on offer here would be rather stranger than might tend to occur in the west. in some cases that's true and a possible reflection of the Japanese mindset.
There are indeed some very disturbing stories, mostly relating to criminal activity rather than anything supernatural. In one case, I thought there was an editing error as the nature of Japanese Ouija boards was discussed and I thought an actual story was coming after the preface to the subject, but the book moved onto the next, leaving me baffled as to why mention of such a thing was included without an example case.
One or two inclusions were really non-stories as far as I was concerned. For me, the most appalling case covered here was the kidnapping and prolonged torture of seventeen year old Junko Faruta. This left me truly shocked at the level of human depravity and sadism.
In other stories, Some obvious things that could have been done to solve a case were either not mentioned or not done by Police. One of the first stories as I recall, if not the first, was a case of a girl that took a strange train journey and was never heard of again. During her weird experiences, she was in contact, presumably via mobile phone, with an internet based forum. She even rang the Police and her family and yet nothing was ever heard from the girl again after she resumed her odd train journey. The question that was not addressed was, why wasn't her mobile phone signal tracked or triangulated as can be done and probably available back in 2004 at the time of this strange story.
One thing I have to note, at least from some of the stories in this book, is the apparent lack of diligence or competence shown by the Japanese Police on some occasions.
I didn't find the narration as offensive as the other reviewer here, but it wasn't the best. Further, grammatical errors were sprinkled throughout the book, leading me to believe that the English text was a translation from Japanese accounts, a translation that should've been properly proofed and wasn't. There was also a clumsy editing error that saw the same story repeaters twice in succession.
If you can get this book in some kind of sale and you're interested in all things Japanese as well as odd, then, sure, give this a go. it isn't anything mind blowing, but is, on the whole, interesting.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- rezonville
- 12-10-20
Gave up
I'm afraid the narration was really rather poor. I might well have found the stories which I actually heard absorbing or even disquieting, had the narrator made any attempt to invest his voice with character or presence.
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