In feudal Japan, the Onna-Bugeisha were fierce female warriors who defied gender norms to fight alongside samurai. Trained in ...

People clad in samurai armor have mounted horses and competed ... The riders included 40 women, the most since record keeping began. Starting this year, festival organizers scrapped a condition ...

Eight women were among a multitude of entrants who rode in the “Soma-Nomaoi” (Soma wild horse chase) festival, an annual ...

The Onimusha 2 remaster is a major win for videogame preservation, even if Capcom’s hands-off approach conserves decades-old ...

President has taken to berating foreign leaders and reporters at length, foregoing traditional press conferences ...

That Tom Cruise is able to empty his head when he runs, blanking out his career, his cultural meaning, his past and present ...

The Soma Nomaoi festival’s main event was held on Sunday in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, where about 35,000 spectators ...

Discover the powerful and largely untold history of Japan’s Onna-musha - female samurai warriors who stood alongside men on ...

On the rural islands of Nagasaki a handful of believers practice a version of Christianity that has direct links to a time of samurai, shoguns and martyred missionaries and believers.

The quality is so much better that playing the remaster of “Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny” can ... absorb and use to upgrade his arsenal and armor. He even has an ability to transform ...