TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. Subscribers may view the full text of this article in ...

The Japanese provincial city of Ichijōdani was destroyed in the civil wars of the late sixteenth century but never rebuilt. Archaeological excavations have since uncovered the most detailed late ...

When it comes to video games, historical settings seem to be among the most popular, and this is no different for the ...

Survival RPG and city builder Sengoku Dynasty adds a new regional conquest system, samurai weapons and armor, and more in its launch update.

you get a lesson in court etiquette and status in feudal Japan. Visitors would have been welcomed at a thatched entrance, then led by rooms decorated with menacing images of tigers—a reminder ...

Please verify your email address. Medieval city-builders offer a unique starting-from-scratch experience. The best of these games allow players to create realistic villages on natural landscapes.

The city government ... verge of unifying Japan. The castle was often dubbed “phantom castle” because there are no visible remnants on the grounds and no pictorial maps.

KOKA, Shiga Prefecture--A European-style rapier owned by a feudal-era warlord ... Properties and the Koka city education board examined the rapier and found that Japanese sword-producing ...

Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. The new trailer for Assassin’s Creed Shadows has dropped and this time it’s set in feudal Japan, but some Japanese gamers are ...

In the faces of my 21st-century Japanese comrades, it was hard to see the passion of the kamikaze, the temptation of Bushido (the feudal Japanese code of chivalry that values honor above life), or ...

We’ve been clamoring for an Assassin’s Creed set in feudal Japan ... the human cost of Japanese unification after Nobunaga deposed the Ashikaga shogunate. The open-world map will include ...

"Shogun" season 2 is officially happening. "Shogun" has been the best show of 2024 so far for many people, including myself.