The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of ...

In feudal Japan, the Onna-Bugeisha were fierce female warriors who defied gender norms to fight alongside samurai. Trained in ...

Samurai's Destiny, the legendary action RPG developed by Capcom. Players can once again relive the dramatic story set in ...

Twenty years later, another female assassin got her own version of a Japanese swordcrafting story, in Amber Noizumi and ...

Long before the samurai, Japan was home to the Jōmon culture, a society that crafted intricate pottery and lived sustainably off the land. Spanning over 10,000 years, their history challenges our ...

After facing online abuse over her work on the latest game in the popular Assassin’s Creed franchise, professor Sachi Schmidt-Hori disarmed hateful critics by creating a space for conversation.

With a place at next year's World Cup already secured, the Japan Football Association on Friday called up seven newcomers to ...

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defense against false ...

While that tension lets this episode end on a solid cliffhanger, it also means that it's hard to come up with much to say about this plot, and I can't form much of an opinion on it until we see how it ...

The liberal democracies of Northeast Asia – Japan, South Korea and Taiwan – have survived and even thrived in a purgatorial equilibrium where their fate is dependent on: an America in Asia but not of ...

All of these factors converged in Edo, leading to nearly 200 fires and approximately 50 "great fires" over the course of the ...