Home to some of the most impressive and storied shrines in Japan, many parts of Nikko remain off the beaten path, offering a ...

MITO--Yasuko Yasuhara, once a top party hostess in this Ibaraki prefectural capital, made an inevitable career shift as she ...

There’s not much shogun-era history left in Japan but Matsumoto, north-west of Tokyo, is a great place to relive samurai rule ...

When setting a game in Hokkaido we knew a crucial element was doing our best to represent Ainu culture in a respectful way.” ...

Utamaro was renowned for his bijinga woodblock prints, depicting beautiful women of his day, and other artworks that won the hearts of the people of Edo (now Tokyo).

Ghost of Yotei is set at a pivotal point in the history — 1603 was the year the Tokugawa Shogunate was formed by Tokugawa Ieyasu, one of Japan’s great unifiers, putting an end to decades of ...

Shintō shrines are a familiar presence in every corner of Japan, yet few here are aware of the powerful national organization that oversees them—let alone its historical and ideological ties to ...

Samurai Warriors 5 isn’t just a reboot, it’s one of the best Koei Tecmo games to date. Clever refinements to the series formula and a more impassioned focus on story justifies this bold change ...

A Japanese government panel on Friday proposed the designation of the Atomic Bomb Dome in the western city of Hiroshima as a special historic site. It will likely become the country's first such site ...

Toshusai Sharaku is a Japanese Asian Antiquities artist who was born in the 18th Century. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The Art Institute of Chicago have featured Toshusai Sharaku's work ...