The movie’s protagonist is not seen but instead heard as he and his samurai brethren slaughter the crew of a Korean ship. Yes ...

A new theatrical production of “Chushingura,” a tale of heroes loved by Japanese audiences for over 300 years, opens at ...

Unlike most returning shows, we don't know much about the cast of "Shogun" season 2. So far, the only confirmed cast members ...

Sergeant David Akui walked along Waimanalo Beach on the morning of Dec. 8, 1941, and spotted what he thought was a sea turtle ...

On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito gave a speech on the radio in which he announced the unconditional ...

The 1950s and 1960s were fantastic decades for Japanese cinema, and classics like Ikiru and Onibaba are worth watching if you ...

For centuries Japan’s samurai relied on a practice called seppuku – suicide by disembowelment – as a remedy for failure. Europe’s virtue-signalling ritual has a more prosaic (if equally lethal) name: ...

As I wrote in several articles, my sojourn in Europe was a culture shock on many levels. The most profound was how Europeans separate their rhetoric from their actions. To them, there seems to be no ...

In the Shogun series, Lord Toranaga’s trusted soldier Tadayoshi announces seppuku for himself and his newly born child for his behavior at the regent meeting. Shogun takes us back to the golden ages ...