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 ...

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

The United States announced it had reached a trade deal with Vietnam on Wednesday, which will see Washington impose a 20 per ...

From The Castle in the Sky's Colonel Muska to Lady Asaji from Throne of Blood, we remember the most iconic villains in Asian ...

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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 ...

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

The high point of samurai history is often associated with the Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the Edo period (1603–1868), a time of peace, prosperity, isolationist policies, and cultural ...

This effort came after a period of isolationism from 1639 to 1853 called Sakoku, implemented by the Tokugawa Shogunate. In 1871, a farmer and Civil War veteran from Gorham, Maine, named Horace Wilson, ...

Story Japan, 1863. After three centuries of the Tokugawa Shogunate’s reign, the Black Ships of the West descend upon the nation’s borders and the country falls into a state of turmoil.

Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja released Rise of the Ronin in early 2024 exclusively for PS5. It seems that exclusivity deal is expiring a year later as the action RPG heads to PC in just a couple ...