I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

The resort is designed in a Japanese architectural style and named Gyokuro after ... also published several photos allegedly taken inside one of the cottages, showing samurai armor on display. The ...

The highspeed bullet train takes center stage in Shinji Higuchi’s new film, “Bullet Train Explosion,” premiering on Netflix ...

The country’s aesthetics and inventions have spread far. It still remains a singular place.

For almost 700 years, these disciplined warriors were respected and feared in Japan, and they carved out a path that made ...

Japanese studio teams with Mandla Dube's Pambili Media for 'Yasuke – Way Of The Butterfly', about the African warrior who ...

But it wasn’t medieval knights and dragons that filled his imagination and piqued his creativity; it was Japanese samurai — especially those portrayed in anime. As such, the exaggerated flow of ...

Three sets of Japanese Samurai armour, originally gifted to Malta in 1862 as part of a diplomatic mission, have been restored and reassembled by expert conservators in Japan. Heritage Malta said ...

Two swords once carried by samurai have been found during excavations in Ichijodani, one of medieval Japan’s largest cities. On the outskirts of Fukui, a city of a quarter of a million people in ...

Yasuke – Way Of The Butterfly (working title), about a real-life African warrior who became a samurai in Japan. Dube is writing and directing the rare Japan-South Africa collaboration ...

The samurai belonged to the intellectual elite of Japanese society and practiced creative disciplines like calligraphy and poetry that often contrasted with the violent nature of battle.