Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Junichi Okada talks about the new Netflix series and how his role as action planner touches nearly every part of ...

Two swords once carried by samurai have been found during excavations in Ichijodani, one of medieval Japan’s largest cities. On the outskirts of Fukui, a city of a quarter of a million people in ...

Samurai are the subject of ceaseless fascination for many gamers thanks to their ornate armor, razor-sharp weaponry, and the stories that have been told about them in other media, thanks to directors ...

Left to right: ceramic jar, jar with coins, and wooden tablet(Courtesy Saitama Cultural Deposits Research Corporation) In a town just north of Tokyo, a ceramic jar ...