The city of Kumamoto is steeped in the spirit of its samurai past, which many of its citizens point to as a major influence ...

In Japan and abroad, the samurai are often romanticized as a monolithic group who held themselves to the high moral code of conduct known as Bushido (“the way of the warrior”). While this image holds ...

With more than a decade of Excalibur Knights of the Round Table success, Roger Dubuis turns to 17th century Japanese history ...

Heads up for a Japanese history lesson ✓ The Roger Dubuis Excalibur The Kabuto Legacy features 12 helmets of 17th-century ...

Kiyoshi Kurasawa’s new samurai mystery is handsomely mounted and intellectually compelling, though not as emotionally ...

Everything is not what it seems in Everett Kennedy Brown’s captivating photographic series on Japan’s samurai. While Brown’s photographs look like artifacts from the warriors’ feudal-period heyday, ...

‘Seven Samurai’ is the great masterpiece of Akira Kurosawa. Released in 1954, it is currently included in numerous lists of the best films of all time in portals and media such as IMDb and Empire, ...