Armor is a fun way to customize how Jin looks in Ghost of Tsushima. Check out the best armor sets in the game - and how you ...

Two swords once carried by samurai have been found during excavations in Ichijodani, one of medieval Japan’s largest cities. On the outskirts of Fukui, a city of a quarter of a million people in ...

Two of the stars of Japanese history are samurai and ninja, and the Samurai and Ninja Museum in Tokyo gives guests the opportunity to learn about, and even experience, different aspects of the two ...

Himeji Castle is the major castle in the Harima province, located in the western part of it in the major city. It's northeast of the Saifikuji Temple, north-northwest of the Himeji Kakurega, and south ...

When I first saw red paper chains strung up in my friend’s Brooklyn apartment last year, I thought: Cute! What a fun throwback to Christmases of yore, and a way to make the place ten times cozier as ...

December 9, 2025: Refreshed the list of The Forge recipes for the December 9 update. What are the best The Forge armor recipes? While we'll never be able to craft a complete list, given just how many ...

Months after the federal government stopped issuing and accepting paper checks for most of its business, the Federal Reserve announced it’s considering a slowdown of those services as well. In a ...

First the penny. Next, paper checks? When the US Mint stopped making pennies last month for the first time in 238 years, it drew a lot of attention. But there have been quiet moves to stop using paper ...

A museum packed with samurai weapons and armor stands near the iconic Kintaikyo Bridge in Iwakuni, a short drive from the Marine Corps air station in Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan. The Kashiwabara ...

Samurai schools are failing our children. There, I said it. Kyohachi-ryu School, “the origin of swordsmanship” if its brochure is to be believed, has one teacher and eight students — okay, so they’ve ...

Last Samurai Standing has now landed on Netflix, a six-episode series which takes place in the post-samurai era in Japan, where 292 fallen samurai find themselves lured into a game of survival, where ...

TOKYO (AP) — “Last Samurai Standing,” a Netflix series launching on Thursday, is set in a Japan where the feudal samurai era is about to end. The hero, Saga Kokushu, played by Junichi Okada, is one of ...