“Kitaro and I were destined to meet each other,” Dennis Banks tells The Japan Times. “Our beliefs are similar: Mother Earth, who we are ... we are all the children of this Earth.” Banks, 75, is a ...

It’s difficult to describe the music of Kitaro, one of the leading architects of New Age music. But you know it when you hear it: the Zen-like wail of a Japanese flute, the pitter-patter of percussion ...

Shigeru Mizuki’s GeGeGe no Kitaro has been running in many forms since its debut in 1959, and its newest anime series is set to debut in April. Officially revealed with its first key visual and teaser ...

Young women disappear one after another in drizzling rain. They all hear the “cursed song” of the Cage Song before they vanish into thin air. Kitaro and his friends investigate these mysterious cases ...