Story by Haruka Ishibashi An official report has been released regarding the successful "Ronin Warriors" Memorial Screening ...

For Westerners unschooled in the way of the movie samurai, the classic image of the loyal retainer doubtless looks something like Obi-Wan Kenobi -- or the late John Belushi. A genial riff on the great ...

In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth.

Our May book takes us on the most action-packed adventure yet for NPR's Backseat Book Club. In the Newbery Honor-winning Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus, we meet 14-year-old Manjiro, a Japanese boy ...

Some are born great, and some are born lowly, get shipwrecked, live in exile and brave a perilous return home to achieve greatness. Such was the astonishing true trajectory of Manjiro, a 19th-century ...

If you want to see Japanese swords and armour — and you don’t happen to have a time machine — you’ll usually need to head to a museum. However, we recently came across an astounding collection of ...

Although the PlayStation showed off a few 2D fighting games and the PS2 will be starting something of a 2D fighting game line-up with Guilty Gear X and Capcom Vs SNK 2, 2D fighting fans know that the ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Samurai Shoguns Heart: Romance Among the Cherry Blossoms A samurai’s heart hides behind honor… will you be the one to make it surrender? Games metadata is ...

Sometimes it seemed as if that was all there were. All there ever had been. All there ever would be. There was this scrap of earth — just a big rock, really. And there was a cave in the rock, which ...

When the Dreamcast is truly gone, there will be several reasons why we mourn its loss. For those old-school pugilists, the Dreamcast was pretty much the last bastion for 2D games. In a time where a ...