Hey guys, I'm your host Tara A Devlin, and welcome to this week's episode of Kowabana,

true Japanese scary stories from around the internet. The latest book in the Descan series, Volume 3, is now out.

If you'd like to learn more about some of Japan's most haunted and dangerous spots,

then this is the book for you.

You can find all sorts of abandoned shrines, hospitals, parks,

and even lesser-known places you wouldn't even think could be haunted.

That's Nekan, the Most Haunted Locations in Japan, Volume 3. Out now.

This week, we're heading to Japan's northeast for a selection of stories from the Tohoku region.

Many consider this area of Japan to have some of the oldest, richest law in the country,

but also the most terrifying. First up, a man who works at a company dealing in photographs for

important ceremonies gets a strange request from some bereaved parents. They want a wedding photo for their recently past son.

It's tradition in the area, after all.

But what's really going on here?

Find out in Musakari. These days, I work for a large design agency, but after I left technical school, I worked

part-time at a company specializing in editing photos for important family ceremonies,

that my school recommended.

For funerals, we scanned people's faces from snapshots and then edited them to be in a suit

for their funeral portraits, and for weddings, we mostly did general corrections and such.

Other than that, it was mostly odd jobs unrelated to photos.

For the funeral of a young man in his 20s, I took part in the selection of the photo

from his family album to use for his funeral portrait. But after that, his parents, who, I think think were in their 60s, stopped me and made

a strange request. They said they wanted me to make a wedding photo for their deceased son.

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