Sumie Kaneko, a singer who plays the traditional Japanese instruments koto and shamisen, often performs wearing flashy ...

A groundbreaking new exhibition at the British Museum reveals the untold history of Japan’s Samurai class, including the fact that half of them were women. Samurai is the first exhibition to explore ...

HBO Max is set to bow “Song of the Samurai,” a live-action jidaigeki series rooted in one of Japan’s most enduring manga ...

One of the warlords appearing in the Samurai exhibition is Oda Nobunaga, whose quest to unify Japan in the 16th century inspired Nobunaga’s Ambition, a long-running video-game. Nagoya Castle ,where he ...

The Boshin War wasn’t just a political struggle, it was a clash between old and new Japan. Samurai loyal to the shogun faced imperial forces increasingly armed with modern rifles and artillery.

With the emperor restored to power, Japan’s new leadership moved quickly to modernize its military. The traditional samurai class found itself replaced by a national conscript army modeled after ...

For the past thirty-odd years it has been easy to dismiss Japan as a once-strong economy whose time has come and gone.

The attitude toward the sport really began to change when Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, “Lefty” Gomez and other Major League Baseball (MLB) heavy hitters embarked on a goodwill tour of Japan in 1934. Babe ...

ONE flyweight MMA world champion Yuya Wakamatsu will put his gold on the line against Uzbekistani slugger Avazbek Kholmirzaev at ONE Samurai 1 on Wednesday, April 29.

Directed by Toshiki Hirano and adapted from Keisuke Itagaki’s eponymous series, ‘Baki-Dou: The Invincible Samurai’ returns to ...

Shohei Ohtani is the face of baseball. Meet Teruaki Sato, the phenom who could be the next big baseball superstar out of Japan.