Not many people know the true story of The Last Samurai, the sweeping Tom Cruise epic of 2003. His character, the noble Captain Algren, was actually primarily based on a real person: the French ...

Figures like Sakamoto Ryoma called for Japan to become an industrialized nation with a modern military and the Emperor at its head. While tensions between the Shogunate and the Nationalists would ...

From Dragon Ball to One Punch Man, this comedic hero serves verbal smackdowns, non-sequiturs, and gags just as killer as ...

After all, the cast was a highlight of the show set in a slightly fictionalized pre-Tokugawa shogunate Japan, securing five nominations for acting awards at this year's Emmys. Given that this show ...

Having evolved over many centuries, these warrior values began to become more standardized as a code during the Tokugawa Shogunate, an era of samurai rule in Japan that began at the turn of the ...

The history of the Dutch trading post on Dejima began in 1609, when the Tokugawa shogunate granted the Netherlands trade rights with Japan and Dutch merchants s ...