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 ...

Tokugawa Ieyasu, who won the Battle of Sekigahara ... news is taken from the Mainichi Shogakusei Shimbun, a newspaper for children. This is perfect material for anyone studying Japanese who ...

High above the town, at the end of an imposingly long stone staircase, is the final resting place of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the sixteenth-century warlord ... snarfing roasted nuts, losing their children ...

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 ...

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 ...

The children were living among mold and piles of garbage, officials said. A Michigan mother was charged with first-degree child abuse on Wednesday for allegedly abandoning her children for several ...

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 ...

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 ...

The monuments feature iconic designs such as parts of a Shinkansen train and the armor worn by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, during the Sengoku (Warring States ...