Following the critical and commercial success of "Ghost of Tsushima," a video game centered on the Mongol invasions of Japan, ...

Yasuke’s remarkable journey took him from Africa to the ranks of Oda Nobunaga’s forces, where he became one of Japan’s most intriguing figures.

The conflict resulted in the Taira rising to power to form the first samurai-led government in the history of Japan. In 1180, the Minamoto clan resumed hostilities with the Taira in what became ...

In 1867, five Japanese students took a long sea voyage to Massachusetts for some advanced schooling. The group included a ...

Samurai swords, also known as katana, hold a special place in the history and culture of Japan. Step into the world of the samurai swords, where honor, discipline, and the art of the sword converge, ...

History of the End of the Samurai: The Last Samurai - The chapter of history for the samurai is coming to a close. The Three Great Nobles of the restoration have fractured. Saigo Takamori returns ...

Seven Samurai tells the story of a village struggling with the imminent threat of bandits hellbent on stealing their harvest.

With each passing international window where he continues to be ignored in spite of what he achieves at club level, Yuma ...

Veteran Japanese producer and Tokyo Film Festival programmer Shozo Ichiyama selects his all-time favorite samurai films, ...

For more than 800 years, the samurai helped to lay the foundations of Japan's culture. Their reverence for honor, duty, and service remains ingrained in Japanese society even today. Together with ...