Two swords once carried by samurai have been found during excavations in Ichijodani, one of medieval Japan’s largest cities. On the outskirts of Fukui, a city of a quarter of a million people in ...

Two of the stars of Japanese history are samurai and ninja, and the Samurai and Ninja Museum in Tokyo gives guests the opportunity to learn about, and even experience, different aspects of the two ...

Netflix has greenlit a second season of “Last Samurai Standing,” the Japanese period-action series that has become a global streaming hit since its debut. Set during Japan’s Meiji period in the late ...

Netflix renews Last Samurai Standing for Season 2 The series topped charts in 88 countries and earned a Critics’ Choice nomination Junichi Okada and Michihito Fujii promise an even bigger, ...

Chaos Manufacturing, a studio founded by “veteran developers with decades of experience working on a wide range of acclaimed game franchises,” has announced SOL Shogunate a “samurai space opera” ...

A museum packed with samurai weapons and armor stands near the iconic Kintaikyo Bridge in Iwakuni, a short drive from the Marine Corps air station in Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan. The Kashiwabara ...

A bridal swap in Brooklyn brought former brides and the newly engaged together to exchange dresses, veils and other accessories. By Alix Strauss For most brides, buying wedding attire can be a pricey, ...

It’s always the ones you least suspect. Sort of. When you really think about it, “the founder of modern Japan’s police force” actually is a prime candidate for the “anti-samurai mastermind” position.

Yesterday, I commented that Last Samurai Standing on Netflix had an exceedingly rare double 100% Rotten Tomatoes scores across both critics and audiences. Today, that’s almost still true, albeit the ...

In 1582, the first Japanese diplomatic mission bound for Europe set off from Nagasaki. Conceived of by Jesuit missionaries, the Tenshō embassy was composed of four young Japanese noblemen who over the ...