Chill-seeking: Japan's haunted house summer tradition
Halloween may be months away, but it's already peak haunted house season in Japan, where seeking a bone-chilling fright is a long-established summer tradition.
Summer is closely associated with the dead in Japan, because it is believed that ancestral souls return to their household altars during the mid-August "obon" holiday.
Summer is closely associated with the dead in Japan, because it is believed that ancestral souls return to their household altars during the mid-August "obon" holiday.
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00:00Yelling.
00:03Screaming.
00:05A glimpse of the school at the time
00:10Maki Yamanashi
00:16They are so persistent!
00:21Have you guys realized what's happening?
00:28I felt incredibly passionate last year,
00:32I feel like this year is going to be even hotter than last year.
00:35I don't know what's going to happen in a few years.
01:02In Japanese, we often use the expression,
01:07the feeling of the liver being cold.
01:12But in this festival,
01:15the feeling of being frightened and cold,
01:19or the feeling of the liver being cold,
01:22is one of the elements that makes you feel the coolness of summer.
01:32I feel like this year is going to be even hotter than last year.