Meet Frenchman Jules Brunet, the real-life last samurai. Fighting alongside the Shogunate rebels who wanted to maintain ...

The real history of Yasuke, Japan’s first Black samurai The real history of Yasuke, Japan’s first Black samurai How to spend a day in Kanazawa, Japan How to spend a day in Kanazawa ...

Shadows” set for wide release in 2025, it looks as though feudal Japan is going to be on a lot of gamers’ minds this year.

introducing players to the setting in feudal Japan and the two main characters: the female ninja Naoe and male samurai Yasuke ...

Anime, originating in Japan, has long had a complicated relationship to race. In many early anime series, Black characters were almost entirely absent, and when they did appear — even later on in ...

The influence of the samurai class can also be seen in the Japanese religious practices associated with Mount Fuji. Many of key figures in the Kamakura shogunate came from the provinces of Suruga ...