A Journey through History and Time If I could time travel, I probably wouldn’t choose Japan during the late 15th- to early ...

The British Museum is hosting a major exhibition about samurai, which looks to challenge what you think you know about the famed warrior class. After 1615, half of all samurai were actually ...

Two of the stars of Japanese history are samurai and ninja, and the Samurai and Ninja Museum in Tokyo gives guests the opportunity to learn about, and even experience, different aspects of the two ...

Star and action choreographer Junichi Okada is promising an even "more energetic and action-packed” batch of episodes, after Season 1 topped Netflix’s global non-English chart and spent four weeks at ...

Netflix has greenlit a second season of “Last Samurai Standing,” the Japanese period-action series that has become a global streaming hit since its debut. Set during Japan’s Meiji period in the late ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Last Samurai Standing has now landed on Netflix, a six-episode series which takes place in the post-samurai era in Japan, ...

Playing as a samurai is objectively cool. Commanding whole armies of samurai? I’d argue is even cooler. That’s what’s on offer when playing Creative Assembly’s Total War 2: Shogun 2. Like the OG ...

Samurai are among the most enduring symbols of Japanese cultural heritage, thus unsurprisingly, most samurai were Japanese. There are, however, examples of non-Japanese who became samurai as well. The ...

Old letters can be a way to understand things that are still a mystery or as new historical evidence. A letter has been found that is from 17th century Edo Japan which is offering researchers new ...

Nioh 3, the Warring States Period Soulslike, allows players to switch instantly between two different battle styles with the press of a button. Use Samurai Style if you want to fight with a solid, ...