The word ‘samurai’ evokes the image of a noble warrior in medieval Japan, armed with two types of sword, and bound to a moral code underpinned by the values of honour, loyalty and sacrifice. The word ...

What better scenario, then, than the Japanese civil war (1477-1600), where samurai and ninjas (known as shinobi) were fighting each other? Yet when the premiere trailer for Assassin’s Creed ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Athletic director Scott Dolson didn’t know it at the time, but he was watching Indiana’s next basketball coach. No. 12 seed Drake led No. 5 seed Miami by five at halftime ...

“A Samurai in Time” capped its against-all-odds success story Friday at the 48th Japan Academy Film Prize ceremony, where it received the award for best film. A true Cinderella ...

Literally. Ahead of next week’s Tokyo Series, the native of Japan stepped into the right-handed batter’s box wielding not a baseball bat but a SAMURAI SWORD -- and what came next was exactly what ...

In the leadup to the event, Suzuki got a new samurai sword, which he opted to show off during batting practice. The left-handed hitter set up in the batter's box and started taking swings at balls ...

After years spent waiting for a true open-world samurai game, we’ve seen a flurry of them arrive on PC in pretty close proximity. First, there was Ghost of Tsushima. Later this month ...

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Subtitled Shadows, it follows dual protagonists – a ninja named Naoe and a samurai based on the historical Black samurai Yasuke. While it’s a known issue that Asian representation in Western ...