Kubasaki and Matthew C. Perry are the favorites as DODEA-Pacific girls soccer teams cap their seasons with season-ending ...

Hara hachi bu, the Okinawan habit of eating until 80% full, is rooted in centuries-old Japanese philosophy, the practice ...

Step into the world of Japan’s Onna-musha—female warriors ... and triumphs in a society that often tried to erase their legacies. Women have always been warriors—on the battlefield and ...

Jin Minakata is a surgeon in present-day Tokyo. In a few minutes, he finds himself surrounded in a wooded area by “samurai” ...

Two British tourists in Japan have been rescued after they attempted to climb Mount Yotei, the titular mountain featured in Ghost of Yotei.

It was while walking the (deceptively long) stretch between Odeonsplatz and St. Ludwig that I first encountered the ...

Fanatical has sliced Onimusha 2 remaster pre-order prices to their lowest yet, ahead of the samurai action RPG's launch later this month.

Portraits of the past In Ukiyo-e woodblock prints of Edo-era women ... By the time Japan entered the Muromachi period (1333–1573 AD), the culture of the samurai class had truly come into ...

He was a commercial artist; many of his pictures – "of crowds milling over bridges towards famous shrines" or "twirling their ...

After watching his minions face one too many failures in stealing the Raijinken from Yaiba, Onimaru starts to lose his patience with them (as an aside, I adore how he's transformed the Japanese ...