Here are some pictures of your adorable animals on National Pet Day 2025 - take a look and spot yours among this lovely collection of readers' pets ...

The word ‘samurai’ evokes the image of a noble warrior in medieval Japan, armed with two types of sword, and bound to a moral code underpinned by the values of honour, loyalty and sacrifice. The word ...

What better scenario, then, than the Japanese civil war (1477-1600), where samurai and ninjas (known as shinobi) were fighting each other? Yet when the premiere trailer for Assassin’s Creed ...

The "Assassin's Creed" series of video games is adored for painstaking historic accuracy, but also sparks controversy with heavy use of artistic license -- most recently with a black samurai in ...

After working in the sun for six hours, you’ve saved enough from your seasonal work to buy a ticket to see your favorite rock band(s). It’s a general admission show, and in this kind of situation, ...

What writer-director Edgar Wright and his Monty Python-esque cohorts, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, did with zombie films a few years ago, they do again with buddy-cop action flicks in "Hot Fuzz" — and ...

“A Samurai in Time” capped its against-all-odds success story Friday at the 48th Japan Academy Film Prize ceremony, where it received the award for best film. A true Cinderella ...

Using a katana in place of a bat, Suzuki showed off the sheer sharpness and power of the sword traditionally used by samurai, effortlessly slicing balls in half as they were pitched to him.

Seiya Suzuki took a samurai sword and did some batting practice with it. I personally thought the sword would simply deflect said baseballs. But NOPE! It sliced them right in half. It felt like ...

The S.S. Badger passenger ferry will be dry docked in Sturgeon Bay for propeller shaft bearing repairs. The ferry will make the 12-hour trip from Ludington to Sturgeon Bay under its own power ...

Literally. Ahead of next week’s Tokyo Series, the native of Japan stepped into the right-handed batter’s box wielding not a baseball bat but a SAMURAI SWORD -- and what came next was exactly what ...