You might go, "huh?," but it's a ghostly day for a reason. On that day in 1825, a very famous ghost story called 東海道四谷怪談 (Toukaidou Yotsuya Kaidan) debuted in the Nakamuraza Kabuki Theater.

Ref.
四谷怪談(Japanese wikipedia)
Yotsuya Kaidan (wikipedia)

If you are new to Japan, you may wonder why there are a lot of TV programs on ghosts, haunted places and ghost photographs lately. It's all because summer is the "spooky" season over here. If you have kids, your kids may be attending a 肝試し (literally means “test one’s gut) event at local community hall or even in a graveyard!

So, just out of curiosity,
I'd like to ask the TsukuBlog readers this question:

Please feel free to leave a comment!

2 Comments

• At July 24, 2007, Shaney wrote:

  Love the PollDaddy application!

• At July 25, 2007, RrFish wrote:

  There were so many to choose from, but the PollDaddy one looked really, really good!

3 Comments

• At October 15, 2007, ahmed wrote:

  Hi,

  The list of languages seems to be limited. How about the arabic language. A lot of people here in Tsukuba speak Arabic.

• At October 15, 2007, RrFish wrote:

  Hi ahmed,

  Thanks for your comment.

  I had an identical comment when I took another poll last month, and yes, it's very limited. However, as I mentioned in my post, the list of languages is based on the result of the last month's poll.

  Here's the list of languages TsukuBlog readers entered under "other" so far:

  - Nepali

  - Danish

• At October 24, 2007, herb wrote:

  I think that Tagalog should be replaced with "Filipino." Filipino is the national language of the Philippines, not Tagalog. Filipino is language based on Tagalog (the language and the region) mixed with Spanish (something like 40%spanish + 60% tagalog = Filipino).

  Yeah, it's confusing. Most Filipinos don't even know the difference themselves.

The list of countries in this poll is based on the information on this page.

6 Comments

• At September 9, 2007, Natalie wrote:

  Your list of countries seem very limited--that might be why 8 votes went under 'other'. How about Canada, England and Australia? Or is it possible to click other and type in the country name?

• At September 9, 2007, RrFish wrote:

  Hi Natalie, thanks for your comment!

  Yeah, it's very limited, but it's based on the actual population ratio of Tsukuba. The data in the page I referred to above is 2 years old, but it hasn't changed much I think. I thought listing all 20 countries would be too much.... I may list all 20 the next time I do this poll.

  >Or is it possible to click other and type in the country name?

  Yes! You can enter the name of a country in the "brown bar" below "other."

• At September 10, 2007, RrFish wrote:

  I tried "flash method" instead of the javascript version I have now, but I don't know why we can't view the result for "other."

  Here's the list of other nationalities entered under "other" so far:

  - New Zealand

  - Italy

  - Canada

  - Iran

  - France

  Sept.11:

  -Peru

  -Canada

  Sept.19:

  -Mongolia

• At September 21, 2007, RrFish wrote:

  Update:

  -Denmark

  -Germany

  This poll will be closed on October 15.

• At October 14, 2007, TsukuBlog » What is your mother tongue? wrote:

  [...] bi- or multilingual, but what is your mother tongue? The following list of languages is based on the last poll I took on TsukuBlog :) This poll will be closed on Nov 14, 2007. Related [...]

• At October 15, 2007, Natalie wrote:

  Wow 28 people clicked 'other' which is 50% of the vote. Where are they from?