Samurai fashion is in, so are samurai tattoos. New York tattoo artist Sumok Kim, who works at Chronic Ink, has seen a surge ...

Delve into the washitsu's role in Japanese homes, blending cultural history with contemporary interior design for a unique ...

With Tokyo as the crown jewel, you can have a rich experience to last you a lifetime. 4 days is just enough time to see the ...

Japan's known for its futuristic cities (even those that aren't Kyoto and Tokyo), but its history, particularly when it comes to the samurai, is just as amazing to explore. In an era when most samurai ...

Jin Minakata is a surgeon in present-day Tokyo. In a few minutes, he finds himself surrounded in a wooded area by “samurai” ...

It was born out of a period of deep unrest, when John faced financial strain and political discontent. At its heart, Magna Carta established a revolutionary idea: that the king was subject to the law.

Media freedom was one of the key demands of the revolution that toppled the Shah and swept Ayatollah Khomeiny to power 38 years ago, in February 1979, but it is a promise that has never been kept and ...

The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of stability ... just before the Meiji Restoration, which would end the feudal ...

The aim of this restauration operation will be to stabilise structural damages on the Bayeux Tapestry such as tears; to carry out precise dusting of the embroidery; and above all to limit the tensions ...

The use of the ‘mouth’ symbol to represent people recognises humans as ‘mouths to feed’. When Japan simplified its script during the Meiji period, this character was changed to depict an enclosure ...