Silk screens, women's firefighting robes and a Darth Vader costume are among the more than 280 unexpected items that are on ...

Half of Japan’s samurai were women, groundbreaking new exhibition at British Museum says - ‘Samurai’ explores over a thousand ...

Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s (“Wife of a Spy”) very first period film and most ambitious feature to date, “Kokurojo: ...

Extraordinary battle armour, complete with moustachioed masks, enlivens this scintillating show, which brilliantly captures the theatrical side of a chivalrous epoch ...

Hisyo Ishida is looking at me with undisguised disappointment. I cannot blame him. His movements are sharp where mine are clumsy. His hair is pulled into a neat topknot where mine is flapping in my ...

Bushido is the code of honor and morals developed by the Japanese Samurai. It was the foundation of one of history's most documented warrior classes. The way of the Samurai has even seeped into modern ...

Clad in armour and guided by a strict code of honour, Japan’s samurai were more than elite warriors; they were the architects ...