Hisyo Ishida is looking at me with undisguised disappointment. I cannot blame him. His movements are sharp where mine are clumsy. His hair is pulled into a neat topknot where mine is flapping in my ...

Veteran Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa is back after releasing “Cloud,” “The Serpent’s Path,” and his psychological ...

Ubisoft is finally taking Assassin’s Creed to Japan with Assassin’s Creed Shadows. The highly requested setting for Ubisoft’s biggest franchise will be explored through two protagonists: the fictional ...

Assassin’s Creed Shadows takes the franchise to 16th century Japan as players will step into the roles of a Japanese shinobi, Naoe, and – in a series first – a real-life historical samurai, Yasuke. In ...

Katelyn has been a writer since they learned to hold a pencil, but was a latecomer to the world of gaming, gradually falling in love with video games over the course of high school and college. They ...

Japan has a proud history of anti-imperialist struggle. Samurai means “to Serve” and belongs to the warrior class of feudal Japan. The classes of Japan were based upon the caste system of India and ...

If you enjoyed FX’s historical drama Shōgun, you probably loved the political subterfuges of imperial Japan, gruesome and spontaneous murders, the surprisingly gory culture of samurai loyalty, and how ...

Assassin’s Creed finally arrives in feudal Japan, an era fans have clamoured for nearly two decades. With Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Ubisoft Quebec attempts to balance stealth and combat while ...

A statue of a powerful 16th-century warlord and samurai outside a shopping arcade in Japan has been beheaded, a shop official and media reports said Wednesday. The statue is of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who ...

Something to look forward to: For years feudal Japan has been the most requested setting for an Assassin's Creed game, and Ubisoft will finally indulge those demands this November with Assassin's ...

Shōgun is a Hulu and FX historical fiction series set during the Edo Period, following European traders who arrive in Japan, becoming favoured allies of a feudal lord. The series is based on a novel ...

From ninja museums to hallowed samurai battlefields, here are the best sites to dive into epic Japan via the hit FX/Hulu series. Shōgun hit its stride right out of the gate when its first two episodes ...