Ghost Stories From Japan
Book Title: Ghost Stories From Japan
Title: Ghost Stories From Japan
Type: Fiction
Category: Horror

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By: Dan Edward Venz

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Release Date: Winter, 2008
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6 New Horror Stories from Japan


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6 New Horror Stories From Japan
By: Dan E. Venz


This book is dedicated to my father who taught me that if I can't join em, beat em!


Story 1: The Bag
When Katsuyafs family moves to an old village in the countryside of Nigata prefecture because of his fatherfs job he is not happy about it but he soon befriends five village boys that make the move bearable. That is, until he discovers a schoolbag laying unattended on a bus stop bench that no one will talk about. Not even his new best friends. Eventually he gets them to tell him the story behind the bag and he becomes even more curious about it. But, sometimes curiosity kills the cat.


Story 2: Irresistible
Kenji is the perfect guy. He is tall, good looking, comes from a good family, has lots of money and lives in a nice condo in the upscale area of Roppongi Hills. He is what most Japanese girls consider the perfect catch. But is he? He really has no interest in relationships with girls. In fact, finding innocent and naïve girls and luring them into bed with his charms is his most enjoyable past time. He enjoys the sense of power he gets from the trauma he causes to the girls that he uses and then discards like garbage. Then, he meets the perfect girl. Or is she?


Story 3: The Taken
Japan has a 90% conviction rate for criminals but there are actually numerous crimes in Japan that go unsolved each year even though the person who committed the crime is arrested, convicted and put into prison. Yuya is a young detective looking for an answer to the rising evidence that there may be someone or something else behind the crimes and that the people being arrested and imprisoned are also victims.


Story 4: The Nationalist
Nobuhiro is a patriot. He loves Japan. In fact he hates anything and everyone not Japanese. He prides himself on the fact that he maintains traditional Japanese values and despises the new generation of young Japanese that have embraced western values along with western people. He only eats traditional Japanese food, only goes to traditional Japanese bars, he wonft use any products not made in Japan, refuses to speak to foreigners even in Japanese and openly suggests that all foreigners should be sent back to their own countries. He is about to learn the flip side of his narrow mindedness when he stumbles into the perfect traditional Japanese gmembers onlyh bar on his way home from work one night on a small street in Adachi-ku, Tokyo. Will he be able to live up to their standards as a patriot? Can he cut it?


Story 5: Following the Rules
Japan is famous for rules and Japanese people are notorious for following rules. Those who do not follow rules, no matter how absurd, are often ostracized from their friends and society. Daiki is just a regular High School boy trying to get along and following the rules. One morning he wakes up and begins to notice that there are some new rules that are just too absurd to follow but his friends and family seem to have no problem following them. The new rules just keep on coming and they get more and more absurd and the penalties for not following them get more and more intense until Daiki must finally make the most important decision of his life. Follow the rules or die!


Story 6: Traumatized
Shoji was just five years old when he witnessed his mother murder his father by pushing him off the balcony of their 21st story apartment. His mother claimed that dad had been abusing Shoji and his mother and the prosecutor deemed that she was protecting her son when she pushed her husband off the balcony. She was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to a mental institution until such time as the doctors felt she was safe to join society again. Shoji was sent to live with his grandparents and his unclefs family. He was so traumatized by the event that he has never spoken since that night.

Five years have passed and his mother was recently released from the mental institution and came home to live with her parents and Shoji.

Not long after she arrived, members of the family as well as neighbors started to have mysterious accidents which caused their death. The police are investigating Shojifs mother and believe she is the person behind it. Shoji has witnessed most of the accidents but he is not talking. Is Shojifs mother being set up? If so then by who and why are they doing it?



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