Because then maybe you should allow them to choose to make contact if they so wish. And also, you state that if they are malevolent, you will exorcise them. When did you become judge, jury and executioner? What level of due process will your decision involve? If these entities exist, they are more human than not, and therefore deserving of at the very least a fair trial. You aren’t objective in this situation - we would never let a judge preside over a trial of a person accused of breaking into his home, and stealing his flat screen TV.
Cute? I assume you’ve seen panda sneeze? They may have cute faces, but mom really let herself go there. She’s sitting on the couch with bon bons a la Peg Bundy, and I bet if she runs out she can lift that gut up to find a couple more.
How do you know they have the ability to contact me? And I’ll be judicious in my malevolent judgment. If it starts chucking knives at me, I’ll go with evil. Otherwise it can do whatever it wants. I’m an easy roommate. Unless it’s eating my olives. Then it’s gotta go.
heh. That this might be a J-ghost didn’t occur to me until I read homeboy fellow Japan-dweller Auto’s post here. I have absolutely no experience with ghosts either, but it’s a big thang here. FWIW, I don’t think J-ghosts just happily evaporate when the house is torn down; I reckon they’d be pissed. It’s not like they’re alive and fire/destruction is going to harm them. Candy-ass cleansing rituals 
(no disrespect intended) probably won’t cut it with big bad J-ghosts.
First of all, Autolycus isn’t the only one reading the papers here, but if it helps, both he and I will step forward and clear your good name by mentioning that you frequently hung towels from doorknobs, then stuck yer neck in thar to, uhhh, stretch a la Hide. You’re welcome!
Seriousry, harae is the way to go. It’s commonly done, doesn’t piss Mr. Ghost off, and gives everyone a nice warm sense of closure. I’d call in the Shinto priestess just for the whole experience, myself. Here, exorcism is done as a matter of course (if someone jumps from their apartment window, for example, the management company will, without fail, call in a Shinto priest to do an exorcism) and there’s none of that Exorcist scary shit in thar.
PS. When are we doing a Japan Doper meetup anyway? Get HokkaidoBrit in here too, etc.
Even if you think you are being fair, you have to see how you aren’t a person who can give the accused due process in this situation. I’m sorry - I think the only fair option is to move out until a full trial can be arranged, after maybe 2 or 3 years of discovery.
ETA Oh, you are in Japan. Have at it then. I was presuming we were awarding American style constitutional rights to these beasties.
Ha, it’d get a better trial from me than from the Japanese legal system. That shit is scary!
No, it’s because their Sith overlord would open a can of whoop-ass on you.
Nope. Borley Rectory burned down and they STILL had trouble with floating bricks and what not.
I don’t believe in ghosts in the slightest now, but I read a WHOLE LOT of parapsych back in the day. As you’ve intimated, I’d advise hanging in there unless you start picking up on some malevolent stuff (which is kinda like pornography–you’ll know it when you see it). If malevolence does find its way into your situation, I’d try moving out, honestly. I’ve heard a lot of belief systems on getting rid of entities. They don’t work very well, largely because (in my own skeptical opinion, retrofitted to fit the thread) your fears and anxieties are what’s fueling the whole thing.
Let’s get on that 早く！ It’s vacation time for some of us I’m sure. Would somebody give us the honorable action of starting a thread?
P.S. No ghosts allowed.
Arson.
Actually, I would try the opposite tactic. A diet of beer, beans, sausage, cheese, cabbage and broccoli.
Can ghost’s go faster than the speed of light? If so, they could be alien ghosts. Proof of extra terrestrial death-forms!
If you believe in ghosts, wormholes shouldn’t present a problem to your worldview.
Play Celine Dion music REALLY REALLY LOUD:D Doesn’t hurt to try it? Actually yes it does.
Sorry I couldn’t resist.
You’ll need several wagon loads of un-dead Amish, but they can get it done all in one day.
“Ya. You be careful out amongst them English.”
“Why’s that…?”
“Brrrraaaaaaaaiiiins…!”
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Old idea already 
, in the classic Manga/Anime Lum(Urusei Yatsura) the creator Rumiko Takahashi grabs from the ghost and monster folklore of Japan and turns the para-normals into aliens, with crazy and funny results. (Lum is a female Oni, that is a demon or devil)
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