It's set in the Meiji period of 19th century Japan when the samurai's power started to wane ... In fact, the show has nearly ...

Kokura Castle - Dive Into Kyushu’s Samurai History! Founded in 1602 ... Originally founded by the 19th-century clan leader ...

Netflix is developing an exciting new battle royale drama from Japan, Last Samurai Standing ... as I had envisioned him as Shujiro while writing.” “Set in the late 19th century during the Meiji period ...

It’s been over two years since it was announced that Netflix would team up with Nick Jones Jr. to produce a five-part series on Oda Nobunaga’s retainer, Yasuke, the first black Samurai in the Sengoku ...

According to mythology, sumo matches determined the rulers of Japan, with the god of thunder, Takemikazuchi, prevailing in the earliest legendary match. Over time, sumo evolved from a violent sport to ...

Like many places in Japan, the city of Matsue is proud of its local history, and also like many places in Japan, that local history involves samurai. Matsue is the prefectural capital of Shimane and ...

Honma expected to become a samurai warrior himself, and enrolled in a military academy in Worcester. And then some unexpected things happened. Japan's ruling dynasty, the shogunate that had run the ...

An outlandish contest daring participants to impersonate Japanese samurai writhing in pain after ‘seppuku’ -- ritual suicide -- has been called off in Japan after criticism that it was in poor taste.

A brown bear — and there hasn’t been one of those in Southern California for more than a century — breaks into ... it was a person in a bear costume using a kitchen tool designed to shred ...

"It makes me want to go to the chiropractor," moderator Todd Field told director Robert Eggers of Depp's enormously physical performance in the vampire gothic.

That ethos is certainly evident in a new limited-edition backpack produced by Murase Kabanko, a Japanese bag manufacturer that’s been in business since ... Leather scraps that would otherwise go to ...

an hour-long drama delving deep into samurai culture and the feudal politics of early 17th-century Japan. The winner of 18 Emmys, that show made history earlier this fall as the first Japanese ...