But the rumours were wrong: the tsarevich’s skull was somehow undamaged. Tsuda was a decorated veteran of the Satsuma Rebellion. He was an ultra-nationalist; his crime was ‘loyalty run mad’, one ...

Did Princess Diana's life (and its ending) sound the death knell for that most parasitic of institutions, the British monarchy?

She is the great-granddaughter of the diplomat Count Nobuaki Makino, and the great-great-granddaughter of the samurai Ōkubo Toshimichi, famous for having been the cause of the Satsuma Rebellion in ...

Another famous instance is Nathan Algren (played by Tom Cruise) who in the movie The Last Samurai (2003) joins the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877 led by the charismatic Katsumoto (played by Ken Watanab ...

However, her plan to find information takes a turn she wasn’t expecting as she ends up in 1877, a couple of weeks before the Satsuma Rebellion, the end of the samurai. “Gate to Kagoshima” by Poppy ...

He perished in the Battle of Shiroyama, a fight that marked the end of the so-called Satsuma Rebellion. This occurred amidst the turbulent, forced modernization of Japan brought about by the Meiji ...

Runaway Horses revolves around a group of nationalistic teenagers obsessed with the late 19th-century Satsuma Rebellion, when the samurai rose against their dissolution as a warrior caste loyal to ...

Isla knows all too well that the samurai do not survive the bloody Satsuma Rebellion after their leader Saigō Takamori is killed. Now she must choose: return to her own time, stay with Keiichirō ...

While some supported the shift, others were against it, with these sentiments resulting in samurai staging the hard-fought Satsuma Rebellion against the Imperial Army. Emperor Meiji, 1880s. (Photo ...