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 ...

In the series, he plays the mysterious Lord Yoshii Toranaga—a fictionalized version of Tokugawa Ieyasu—who shares two sons with his loyal wife, Kiri no Kata (Yoriko Dōguchi). He told The ...

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 ...

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 ...