feudal Japan and World War II – and plonks the world’s most infamous alien hunter in all three. Want to see brutal dreadlocked extra-terrestrials eviscerating samurai, Norse warriors and fighter ...

Japan was in the midst of a very tumultuous period. The Meiji Emperor was trying to modernise and westernise the country, ...

Step into the world of Japan’s Onna-musha—female warriors who wielded swords and courage with equal force. This documentary ...

Nothing might be confirmed regarding the franchise receiving a remaster and/or sequel series but it goes to show how the ...

The iconic Japanese dolls range from a couple of inches to several feet in height, and there are thousands of them at the 1,300-year-old temple, located about an hour from downtown Osaka in Minoh ...

With the growing number of tourists visiting Japan, decorations modeled after "kabuto"—traditional samurai helmets—are becoming popular year-round as souvenirs. While the dolls were once ...

Two swords once carried by samurai have been found during excavations in Ichijodani, one of medieval Japan’s largest cities ... in an homage to these elite warriors. Under the Asakura ...

Three sets of Japanese Samurai armour, originally gifted to Malta in 1862 as part of a diplomatic mission, have been restored and reassembled by expert conservators in Japan. Heritage Malta said ...

Photo: Brad Flowers For nearly 700 years, samurai were Japan’s social elite, skilled not only in combat but also in politics and the courtly arts. To equip these warriors in accordance with ...

Why has matcha gone from a centuries-old Japanese tradition to a global ... ‘alert and calm’, and perhaps that’s why the Samurai warriors would drink the tea before going to war.