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List of Japanese Legends

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Kappa are exceedingly polite and find it hard to resist returning a bow.
In legend, foxes become beautiful women to fool humans. In feudal times, people feared that beautiful strangers who appear at dawn or dusk could be a fox.
Yamamba is a Japanese female ghost who makes frequent appearances in Japanese folklore, literature and art. She has a very unusual son.
Animals are often attributed with godlike magical powers in Japanese myth.
It says a lot about Japan that the nation's oldest recorded story is a science fiction.
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These words go a long way to explain Japanese culture: the way Japanese people think.
In Japan, flowers are used to convey what can't be spoken.



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