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Because of the modern rationalism introduced to Japan by the Meiji Restoration, ghost stories and strange stories transmitted from the Edo period were excluded as ‘superstition’. However, ghost stories appeared in popular media as a strange story of new era categorized as psychology, ethnography and psychiatry. And the expansion of territory by japan made these ghost stories cross the frontier to Korean colonies. Likewise, a new strange story by modern science, such as hysteria and telepathy can be seen in the ghost stories posted in the Japanese magazine which is published by Japanese living in the colonial korea. These ghost stories were emphasized on ‘real story’, and the frame was used for giving a reality of when, where, and to who experienced it. This real story emphasis was sort of modern literary techniques, and people enjoyed stimulation from the reality that the stories were real. In addition, the word ‘spirit’ that appears in ghost stories was used by psychologically meaning, and at the time was used by ‘Japan spirit’ repeatedly. The territory of using the word ‘spirit’ was spread out to the identity of Japanese nationals in the political space of colonies. The Japanese ghost stories in colonial Korea were a new thing following the Japanese traditional ghost stories, and, at the same time, were a political expression related in the colonial situation.