I'm sure many here have already heard of this but I found it interesting in an odd way. Chances are this is an urban myth but it makes for a good scary tale. My daughter says a classmate claims to have tried it over the weekend....
Mr B may well have heard of this? One player hide and seek?
Would love to go to J-land. Arcades and Akihabra of course - but also to get out in the countryside, experience the trains, go to a sumo event, visit a temple - all that gubbins.
Really like the idea of the politeness though would be worried about stumbling into an embarrassment as I can be socially hamfisted at times - in the main I am pretty ignorant of the amount of space I take up and invade others' when my concentration wanes....my laugh is quite loud too which isn't always welcome.
I was shortlisted to go there for my year in industry as part of my degree - fell one place short.
Stating the obvious but the main risk, as with any messing about with stuff like this such as ouija boards etc. is that certain people convince themselves they have unleashed something or become possessed - a pretty hard notion to remove such is the power of self-delusion.
Of course to think we know everything about every existing source of energy is folly too - we could be like a toddler playing with matches or a live wire when messing about with stuff like this.
I was amazed when I heard that the top selling board game in the US for years in the mid-to-late 20thC was a ouija board. Clearly, as there are not millions of irrational people living in the US acting as if under the influence of evil spirits then it is unlikely that there is anything to this.