One of the most acclaimed dramas of the streaming era is set to return for a second season, with not one, but two familiar ...

Shōgun Season 2 will be set 10 years later, but with no more book to adapt, what can the show take from real history?

There are many historical valued displays including the scale model of the mausoleum of the second Tokugawa Shogun, Hidetada, whose posthumous Buddhist name was Taitokuin-den, which belongs to the ...

Although the second Tokugawa Shogun, Hidetada, rebuilt castle structures such as the Main Tower, lightning struck the Main Tower in 1665 and burned the hapless tower down again. In 1931, citizens of ...

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 ...

UNESCO's executive board on Thursday added Buddhist scriptures kept at Tokyo's Zojoji Temple to its Memory of the World register, making it the ninth Japanese inscription. The series of some ...

The scriptures were collected by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan's Edo era, and donated to the temple. Meanwhile, a set of 1,532 photographs and two films ...

After the Tokugawa Shogunate was overthrown in 1868 and imperial rule returned to Japan, Emperor Meiji recruited people from the Western world to rapidly familiarize his country with the ...

It was here, in 1868, that the last shogun, Yoshinobu Tokugawa, returned political power to Emperor Meiji, ending the nearly 700-year shogunate. Overnight, it seemed, Japan was open to the world ...

The publicly traded organization is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and boasts an incredibly nuanced history dating back to the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1870. Today, Mitsubishi offers services ...