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

Even the samurai's understanding of art and poetry can be traced to stories of the Gempei War. As infighting increased through the following century, so did the need to defend Japan from foreign ...

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

Return to the world of samurai and learn about the women warriors who defended homes and created long-lasting legacies.

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.

A decades-old unproduced screenplay set during Japan's 1868-'69 civil war has been dusted off and given thoroughly ... After ...

During World War Two, kamikaze pilots were photographed ... ethos kept its power long after their heyday. But the Samurai's role in Japanese culture is much more complex than that.

Having Yasuke depicted as a cool samurai was entirely ... which is what Japanese fans are mostly pointing out online In addition, a massive edit war has erupted over on Wikipedia about Yasuke ...

Then as samurai we must die ... boom" represents a return to the imperialistic philosophy of pre-World War II Japan. I don't think it does. The Japanese, in my opinion, are now far too ...

Known as Yasuke, the man was a warrior who reached the rank of samurai under the rule of Oda Nobunaga - a powerful 16th Century Japanese feudal lord who was the first of the three unifiers of Japan.

A group of Japanese artists are hoping to help people embrace both the Olympic spirit and Japanese culture by reimagining flags of competing countries as samurai characters. Nations large and ...

Samurai stories, an essential genre of Japan’s film industry since its inception ... saddling Japan’s so-called Golden Age of filmmaking — the post-War period of the 1950s and 1960s ...