A 15-year-old boy who attempted to murder a schoolgirl by stabbing her with a samurai-style sword during a Halloween camping trip has been sentenced to 11 years in youth detention. The victim, who was ...

The term "samurai" comes from the Japanese word saburau, meaning "to serve," and was first used in A.D. 702 to describe mid-to-low-ranking court administrators and, later, armed imperial guards.