Katsugoro and Other Reincarnation Cases in Japan

"Where did you come from before you were born to our house?" eight-year-old Katsugoro asked his brother and sister. To his surprise, neither of them remembered a previous life as he did.

In this book, the linguist and parapsychologist Ohkado Masayuki examines in depth this important 19th century case suggestive of reincarnation, alongside numerous contemporary accounts of Japanese children claiming to remember past lives. Uniquely, the author also explores cases of children who remember the...