Along the Tsuboi River near the castle, sit five bronze statues of heroes of the Meiji Restoration, which in 1867 led to the abolition of the samurai class and Japan’s rapid drive towards ...

Samurai weaponry and armor from Ichijodani includes ... would have had access to a wide range of foreign goods via river trade routes that connected the city to the Sea of Japan 20 miles away.

A gory set of manuals, one dating to the 17th century, advised Japanese warriors in the secret ways of seppuku.

striking him with the pommel of his sword and causing him to fall into the river. Oniwakamaru might be one of the most tragic characters in all of Samurai Champloo. Introduced in the second ...

On June 7, 1991, firefighters battled a stubborn fire at the Gasho of Japan on Saw Mill River Road in Hawthorne. Gasho, a hibachi-style restaurant built to look like a 16th-century samurai farmhouse, ...

By J. Hoberman Few movies have been more influential than “Seven Samurai,” an existential action film directed by Akira Kurosawa that, at longer than three hours, seemingly muscled its way ...