Tokyo’s Halloween Revelers Aren’t Put Off by Rain

For many young people in Tokyo, Halloween is a release from their daily responsibilities and social expectations.

For about a decade, Yurika Yoshikawa has painted herself as a skeleton every year. She said the costume reminds her of the thin boundary between life and death.

“It’s both an act of mourning and of protection, a small gesture to remember the dead while standing among the living,” she said.