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Japan’s most terrifying ghouls, monsters and demons come out to frighten the public on a street believed to border the spirit world.
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We join the festivities at Suga Shrine, made famous as one of the real-life locations from the hit anime film Your Name.
Special penis shrine books will even be available for the first time this year.
The west Tokyo neighborhood’s take on the centuries-old event is like bad medicine, and bad medicine is what I need.
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