User blog comment:Real Godisme/The Ultimate Review - Week 4/@comment-4700320-20141027164309/@comment-7418318-20141027171616

I thought as much.

Because pretty much any country I know of that has been inhabited for as long as Japan has a similar number of old myth and legends. America just isn't old enough for that yet I suppose and the legends of the natives probably aren't all that well known these days in the general population.