The phrase “local history” can sometimes bring to mind stuffy and mundane minutiae. Things like “The town’s borders were set when Farmer X petitioned County Administrator Y to dig an irrigation canal, ...

While you wait for Shogun season 2, check out this two-season Japanese samurai show on Prime Video, which makes for a perfect ...

Several hundred years before the birth of Christ, the first Chinese emperor, Zheng of Qin, employed security tactics that seem surprisingly modern by today’s standards, including decoy vehicles to ...

Japan's legendary ninjas are famous for their stealth and were said to possess a supernatural gift for invisibility. But now martial arts experts are concerned they might be disappearing in real life, ...

Naturally, this means Japan’s legendary warriors, the samurai and ninja, have also been having a second wind, especially when ...

Released back in 1979, the Japanese movie G.I. Samurai kicks a ton of ass: in it, a squad of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces on maneuvers are thrown through a time rift to 16th Century Japan and have to ...

The fourth page of the report noted that Ninja Gaiden Master Collection had sold 240,000 units on all available platforms combined worldwide. Samurai Warriors 5 reached an even higher number with ...

Japanese regional banks are increasingly lending to foreign companies and other borrowers via samurai and ninja loans as they struggle with interest rates stuck at zero and seek to diversify their ...

Japan's era of shoguns and samurai is long over, but the country does have one, or maybe two, surviving ninjas. Experts in the dark arts of espionage and silent assassination, ninjas passed skills ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook When fans think of Batman, they imagine more Gotham villains and less samurai warlords. However, ...