The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of stability, the need for them faded, forcing these warriors to find a new way of ...

A sunken ‘pyramid’ located near Taiwan has researchers rethinking everything they know about ancient civilizations. Discovered near the Ryukyu Islands of Japan in 1986, the Yonaguni monument is a ...

Their diving practice is mentioned in ancient classical literature and there’s a reference to ama dating back to AD927 in Japan’s Heian ... museum highlights their culture and heritage and ...

Believed to be over 10,000 years old, it challenges the timeline of human construction, suggesting that advanced societies may have existed long before previously thought.

Part of that culture stretches back more than 200-years. The original Japanese woodblock prints, that Kitamura uses for many of his tattoos, created by one of Japan's master artists, Utagawa ...