Inside the Upper Village Hall in Derry, the clash of bamboo swords and the focused rhythm of movement echo centuries of tradition as Kendo and Iaido — martial arts rooted in samurai swordsmanship — ...

We think of samurai as fearsome warriors – and they were, said Neil Fisher in The Sunday Times. Yet if you visit Nomura Residence, an “elegant” house in the Japanese city of Kanazawa where generations ...

Extraordinary battle armour, complete with moustachioed masks, enlivens this scintillating show, which brilliantly captures the theatrical side of a chivalrous epoch Japan’s pre-modern warrior elite ...

Bushi was the term used to refer to warriors, and a warrior family was called a buke. And it wasn’t used to refer to just any warrior. Those who called themselves bushi saw war and battle as their way ...

"Blue Eye Samurai" is an original, jaw-dropping adult animated epic streaming on Netflix. It blends samurai action, identity struggles, and stunning visuals into something truly binge-worthy. The ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Junichi Okada talks about the new Netflix series and how his role as action planner touches nearly every part of ...

Netflix has greenlit a second season of “Last Samurai Standing,” the Japanese period-action series that has become a global streaming hit since its debut. Set during Japan’s Meiji period in the late ...

The FIFA men’s World Cup is only played once every four years, and it is arguably the most eagerly anticipated event in all of sports. The United States, Canada and Mexico have known they will be ...

Samurai schools are failing our children. There, I said it. Kyohachi-ryu School, “the origin of swordsmanship” if its brochure is to be believed, has one teacher and eight students — okay, so they’ve ...

In 1582, the first Japanese diplomatic mission bound for Europe set off from Nagasaki. Conceived of by Jesuit missionaries, the Tenshō embassy was composed of four young Japanese noblemen who over the ...

Junichi Okada stars, produces and did the action choreography on this six-part series about a nefarious game pitting samurai against each other in 19th-century Japan. By Daniel Fienberg Chief ...