The Noto no Amamehagi ritual took place in Noto, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Sunday, with children who were wearing ogre masks ...

Ogre-like figures with wild horns, colorful faces and toothy maws walked from home to home, warding ill fortune away from ...

Japan’s annual ritual of “mame-maki,” or bean-throwing, at Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines and homes sees people marking ...

Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at a Buddhist temple in downtown Tokyo, eagerly stretching their hands to catch the dried ...

He once said of the marriage: 'I was impossible, an ogre. I would go into black moods and not speak to her for months. It must have been terrible.' His second marriage to Patricia 'Paddy' Ridgeway ...