When setting a game in Hokkaido we knew a crucial element was doing our best to represent Ainu culture in a respectful way.” ...

The Floating World,” a multimedia extravaganza inspired by the art of 18th- and 19th-century Japan, is on view through ...

Liberal thinkers are shocked that nations are once again isolating from the world. The real surprise would be if they didn’t ...

Team Ninja’s Rise of the Ronin hit PS5 on March 22 2024. Almost right away, it positioned itself as the console’s flagship ...

Anime in the 90s was filled with dark and horror-filled stories that continue to leave a lasting impression on anime fans ...

After Commodore Matthew Perry visited Japan and cajoled the Tokugawa Shogunate to establish commercial and diplomatic ...

I'm not an expert, but I think the glowing guardian spirits are a product of creative license.

During that grim period of the Tokugawa shogunate, Catholic priests and indigenous Kirishitan converts who refused to apostatize, who could not bring themselves to tread impiously on an image of ...

But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of stability, the need for them faded, forcing these warriors to find a new way of life. The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for ...

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 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 ...

In 1609 Tokugawa Ieyasu rebuilt the castle, which remained a key power base of the shogunate until the 19th century. Jui-Chi Chan/Alamy After Nobunaga’s assassination in 1582, Hideyoshi avenged ...