True but mostly fictional horror in the Japanese workplace
Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet
Tara A. Devlin
4.8 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2017
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Ever wanted to work in Japan? Probably avoid these jobs. Or any jobs. A young office worker goes missing after investigating a mysterious room. A ghost photo refuses to be edited. Who's haunting the convenience store, and who's in the empty karaoke room? Find out as this week we explore various strange happenings in the Japanese workplace.
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| 0:00.0 | Tour Guides have the opportunity to visit many places and stay in many different accommodations across Japan. |
| 0:19.0 | But they also find themselves staying in rooms where |
| 0:23.0 | other customers refuse, the rooms with interesting circumstances, where sometimes strange |
| 0:30.7 | things are rumoured to appear. There are quite a few tour guides who have had experiences |
| 0:35.8 | that they can't quite explain. |
| 0:39.3 | Because of this, word has it that there's a notebook that tour guides pass around. |
| 0:44.3 | A notebook where they keep track of accommodations with ghostly sightings and strange happenings. |
| 0:52.3 | In it they write down which hotel, which room, and what exactly they saw. |
| 0:58.6 | If customers were to see this information, however, it would bring harm to the lodgings business, |
| 1:05.2 | so it's something they keep very close to themselves. |
| 1:21.5 | Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. something they keep very close to themselves. Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Koabana, bringing you both the best and worst creepy pastors, urban |
| 1:28.8 | legends, and true scary stories that the Japanese internet has to offer. |
| 1:34.1 | Last week I posed the question of who would win, Sadako versus Kayoko, and why? |
| 1:40.5 | We had a few responses that I thought were interesting, so I'd like to read them out. |
| 1:45.5 | One listener on our Facebook page said that Kayako would win, because Sadako needs her videotape to kill. |
| 1:52.5 | Another listener said that it would depend on whether or not Kayako had watched Sadako's tape. |
| 1:58.6 | But my favorite response comes from viewer Chris P. Bacon over on YouTube. |
| 2:03.7 | Excellent name, by the way. |
| 2:05.7 | He said, and I quote, |
| 2:08.4 | I'm going to take a shot in the dark and guess you watch the Sadako versus Kayako |
| 2:13.4 | movie. |
| 2:14.7 | Much like the Freddy versus Jason movie, there are no winners, only losers. And those |
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