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====Japan==== [[File:Kuniyoshi The Ghosts.jpg|thumb|320px|[[Utagawa Kuniyoshi]], ''The Ghosts'', {{Circa|1850}}]] {{Main article|Yūrei|Onryō|Japanese ghost story}}<!-- EDITORIAL NOTE This section is a summary of the main articles listed above. Please do not remove content from this section that appears in the lead section of the main articles. If you have new content, please 1) first add it to the main article, 2) then update the main article summary if necessary, 3) and only then update this section to reflect the change in summary. See [[WP:CFORK]] --> {{Nihongo||[[wikt:幽霊|幽霊]]|'''Yūrei'''}} are figures in [[Japanese folklore]], analogous to Western legends of ghosts. The name consists of two [[kanji]], [[wikt:幽|幽]] (''yū''), meaning "faint" or "dim", and [[wikt:霊|霊]] (''rei''), meaning "soul" or "spirit". Alternative names include {{Nihongo|2=亡霊|3=bōrei}} meaning ruined or departed spirit, {{Nihongo|2=死霊|3=shiryō}} meaning dead spirit, or the more encompassing {{Nihongo|2=妖怪|3=[[yōkai]]}} or {{Nihongo|2=お化け|3=[[obake]]}}. Like their [[Chinese folklore|Chinese]] and Western counterparts, they are thought to be [[soul (spirit)|spirits]] kept from a peaceful [[afterlife]].
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