For almost 700 years, these disciplined warriors were respected and feared in Japan, and they carved out a path that made ...

A rare piece of Japanese Samurai armour gifted to Malta in 1862 has been fully restored and will be featured at Expo 2025 in ...

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Explore how Japanese culture shaped Star Wars—from samurai codes and Zen philosophy to Kurosawa's films, Jedi ethics, and ...

Archaeologists rediscover Ichijodani, a formidable stronghold that flourished amid medieval Japan’s brutal power struggles ...

Mumeishi Kendo Club is taking a contemporary approach to the oldest of the modern martial arts with a new beginner’s […] ...

Police in Shizuoka City have arrested a 40-year-old man on suspicion of fatally stabbing his 72-year-old mother. According to police, Eiki Ozawa is accused of stabbing his mother, Hizuru Kiyoshi, in ...

a 63-year-old carpenter, said. Neither Mr. Miyasaka nor his parishioners say they believe that they have actually been abandoned by a god — Japan has become far too secular for that. They don ...

TOKYO -- Hisashi Hieda, the 87-year-old director who reigned over Japan's Fuji Media Holdings for close to 40 years, will step down as executive managing adviser, the company announced on Thursday ...

Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection The Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum has one of the most expansive collections of Samurai armor outside of Japan. It has only traveled 17 times in ...