Tokugawa Ieyasu was not a young man when he became ... Taking pity, the mothers threw their children off the castle walls, or else they smashed them against the wall. I pray to God that I never ...

As one of Tokugawa Ieyasu's Four Heavenly Kings (four Buddhist gods believed to watch over the world), Tadakatsu wasn't just surviving battles; he was practically vacationing in them while helping ...

Tadakatsu was one of Tokugawa Ieyasu’s main collaborators in his fight for the shogunate. The samurai, Japan’s celebrated lineage of warriors, emerged in the Heian period (794-1185), when the ...

Adams would spend the next 20 years in Japan, initially forbidden by Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu to leave the country. Frederik Cryns’s “In the Service of the Shogun” describes in great scope and ...

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 ...

NIKKO, Tochigi Prefecture--A statue of renowned feudal warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu in a seated position, one of the hidden treasures of Nikkozan Rinnoji temple here, has gone on public view for the ...