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For almost 700 years, these disciplined warriors were respected and feared in Japan, and they carved out a path that made ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family have visited Okinawa to pray for the war dead ahead of the 80th anniversary marking ...

A gory set of manuals, one dating to the 17th century, advised Japanese warriors in the secret ways of seppuku.

On Ikitsuki and other remote sections of Nagasaki prefecture, Hidden Christians still pray to these disguised objects. They ...

Discover the powerful and largely untold history of Japan’s Onna-musha - female samurai warriors who stood alongside men on ...

At the start of each fishing season, ama gather to pray for safety and a bountiful harvest. In coastal shrines, they offer ...

Mao Saigo already won her first major title this year. She’s putting herself in position for another at U.S. Women’s Open.

Perry’s girls soccer teams have at least ... He likens Ramirez to a former Samurai star Bobbi Hill, who holds the DODEA-Japan record with 155 career goals. “She is constantly moving, she ...

A huge Japanese lay half asleep on the immaculate ... Yonai’s mother, also of samurai blood and, being a woman, even less prepared to earn her daily rice than her husband had been, nevertheless ...

Set in the 12th century, the film centers around four contradictory perspectives of one incident — the rape of an aristocratic woman and the ... of the powerful samurai. Deep within the wind-swept ...

However, this revelation brings to light various conflicts and secrets that lurk in the women’s lives ... and-death games of samurai, heralding a new era for Japanese dramas.” ...