Japan's known for its futuristic cities (even those that aren't Kyoto and Tokyo), but its history, particularly when it comes ...

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 ...

While the characters are both fictional, however, they’re heavily inspired by real-life figures Tokugawa Ieyasu and William Adams, so season two will have some grounding outside of total fan ...

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 ...

This quest takes place in Uji Tawara in the centre of the Little Leaf Glad sub-region in the south of Yamashiro and involves defending Tokugawa Ieyasu against grunts from Mitsuhide’s clan.

Mikitani claims descent from Honda Tadakatsu, one of the Four Heavenly Kings of shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu. Mikitani attended ... Beyond his business achievements, Hiroshi Mikitani is known for ...

After earning absolute power over Japan’s feuding factions, Tokugawa Ieyasu became the island nation’s first shogun, and in the early 17th century he consolidated his political control in Edo ...

1600 AD, Japan. Following the decisive battle of Sekigahara, during which Tokugawa Ieyasu defeated the Toyotomi clan, uniting the entire country under his control, two young battlefield survivors ...

Ruthlessness, resolve, and luck all brought Tokugawa Ieyasu to power in 1603 as he unified Japan after centuries of samurai strife and civil war. Guardian statues can be seen at the Tosho-gu ...

After unifying the country following more than a century of civil war in 1603, the first shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu imposed all kinds of rules and restrictions on the conduct of the daimyō lords ...

This power shift ultimately set the stage for the Komaki-Nagakute campaign, where Hideyoshi clashed with Tokugawa Ieyasu. The series will continue to explore how these conflicts shaped Japan’s ...