Chill-seeking: Japan's haunted house summer tradition

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Halloween may not be for months, but it's already peak haunted house season in Japan, where seeking a bone-chilling fright is a long-established summer tradition.   Summer is closely associated with the dead in Japan, because it is believed that ancestral souls return to their household altars during the mid-August "obon" holiday.

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00:00Well I am not against making chldren giant suckers, at least that is what we believe.

00:27Last year it was really hot, but this year it's even hotter.

00:35I wonder what will happen in a few years.

00:57In Japanese, we often use the expression,

01:02気持が冷えるという、ちょっとヒヤッとするような感覚とかっていうのが

01:07そういう表現を使われることが多いかなと思うんですけれども、

01:12実際にこの音量フェスでも脅かされてヒヤッとする感覚だったりとか、

01:17びっくりして気持が冷える感覚っていうところが

01:22夏の涼しさを体感いただく一個の要素にはなっているのかなと思います。

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