Most people are well aware that the Edo shogunate’s seat of power was Edo Castle, but what of the Kamakura shogunate? The focus of NHK’s new historical taiga drama serial Kamakura-dono no 13-nin (The ...

And so, with one final view of Lord Toranaga standing alone at the edge of the world, FX’s “Shōgun” comes to a poignant, if abrupt end. Viewers who expected the old-school Japanese epic to end with a ...

Some 750 years after the Kamakura Shogunate fended off foreign invasions of the Kyushu region, the ancient capital of ...

Greatest phrasemaker in Japan is Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, who invented Japan’s vague rationalization for the war in China, “New Order in East Asia.” A few months ago he minted another: ...

People should use the opportunity of the 400th anniversary of the establishment of Tokugawa Shogunate to consider the culture and social stability of the Edo Period, participants of a symposium in ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. This was the Shimazu clan's villa, a beautiful example of the splendid simplicity in which the upper ...

Donald Keene is seen during a visit at Daitokuji temple in Kyoto in this October 2015 photo. Keene loved the calm atmosphere of Japanese temples. (Provided by the Donald Keene Memorial Foundation) ...

FUKUYAMA, Hiroshima -- Three seals thought to have been used by a high official of the Tokugawa shogunate at the time U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew Perry came to Japan have been discovered, it was ...