It can take more than a year to make a single razor-sharp katana. In Japan, business is booming for the few remaining smiths who know how to do it.

FUKUSHIMA, Japan >> In a spectacle that seemed straight from a picture scroll of Japan’s Warring States period, the three-day Soma Nomaoi festival held its main event May 25 in Minami-­Soma, Fukushima ...

Sprinkled among the 42 entries for the Aug. 17 G1 Aga Khan Studs Prix Jacques le Marois are a trio from Japan for the first ...

The Onimusha series span four mainline games on PS2, between 2001 and 2006. We’ve since seen remastered editions of the first ...

Director Dan Trachtenberg tells IndieWire about how painterly animation opened up the franchise for his time-jumping anthology about Vikings, samurai warriors, and World War II fighter pilots.

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From the late 1990s and all through the early 21st century, TV saw a meteoric rise in animated shows aimed at adults.

Brother-in-armsThis 19th-century illustration depicts the legendary samurai Honda Tadakatsu on horseback after ... The samurai, Japan’s celebrated lineage of warriors, emerged in the Heian ...

Back in 2020, McDonald’s caused a stir in Japan when it added a brand ... back tears as we farewelled this fallen samurai, we headed home and gathered our strength for the next day’s battle. Hello, ...

The samurai ... elite of Japanese society and practiced creative disciplines like calligraphy and poetry that often contrasted with the violent nature of battle. The warrior class rose to power ...

What did samurai warriors eat back in the day? ⚔️🔥 I traveled to Kyoto to try a traditional samurai meal, featuring foods that fueled Japan’s fiercest warriors!