What looks like a reptile-amphibian hybrid, has a dish shaped skull, smells like fish, is child-like and out to steal your crops and drown your livestock? The Japanese water yokai, Kappa. Monstrum is ...

Imagine yourself on a sweltering, humid summer day in Japan, strolling beside a serene river. The air is tinged with a faint, fishy aroma, creating an unusual atmosphere. Suddenly, a sharp, beak-like ...

FUKUSAKI, Hyogo -- A popular statue of a "kappa" river creature from Japanese folklore in this western Japan town will be replaced after becoming worn out from years of "work" by popping out of a pond ...

North America has the Sasquatch. Scotland has the Loch Ness Monster. Japan has the kappa. You’ll be able to spot this elusive, water-dwelling creature by its turtle-like shell and webbed hands and ...

Gajiro the "kappa" folklore creature rises from a pond to scare visitors in this photo taken around when he started his "work" at Tsujikawayama Park in Fukusaki, Hyogo Prefecture. (Photo courtesy of ...

Edo from Pink Tentacle blogs some sketches from Edo period (1603 to 1867) of Kappa, Japan’s most well-known creature of legend, which are notorious for luring people — particularly children — into the ...

388 Fifth Avenue (Sixth Street), Park Slope, Brooklyn; (718) 832-2970, kappasakehouse.com. In Japan, kappa are mythical water monsters with a taste for cucumbers and human guts. They use flatulence in ...