The topic of mask-wearing may have become a divisive one during the pandemic, but looking back through the annals of time reveals one group of people who staunchly supported face coverings: Samurai ...

There was a time in Japanese history when the merest hint of personal dishonor would set a samurai to sharpening his hara-kari sword. Not so in postwar Japan, where the old concept of face has ...

Samurai vs Ninja is run by Remow, a company founded in 2021 that boasts among its 20 shareholders many of Japan’s leading TV networks and publishing houses, as well as Toei and Shochiku, two of ...

The swordfighting skills of the Japanese samurai are the stuff of legend, but are they in danger of being replaced by robots, like so many others? The MOTOMAN-MH24 robotic arm in this very-well ...

This 19th-century Samurai armor contains a mempo, a face mask that, in addition to being decorative, would potentially have had a strong psychological effect on any would-be opponent.

These intricate figures--which mashed up historical samurai armor with characters from the galaxy far, far away--included the likes of Darth Vader, Boba Fett, the I C-3PO Samurai Figure Mashes Up ...

S hinichirō Watanabe’s Samurai Champloo is a genre-bending anime series that finally deserves its flowers for being one of the most classic anime series of all time.This successor to Cowboy ...