Fans find belonging among Japan island’s yokai monsters

Once seen as embodying people’s anxieties and fears, yokai -- monsters from Japanese folklore -- are now being embraced in Japan as symbols of diversity and belonging.

On February 22, a parade of cosplayers made its way through the streets of Tonosho, on the island of Shodoshima in western Japan. Dressed as ghosts and monsters, the cosplayers embodied the spine-tingling unseen and things that go bump in the night -- yokai.

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