Japan The three samurai who unified Medieval Japan The three samurai who unified Medieval Japan This shogun outwitted and outlasted his rivals to rule Japan This shogun outwitted and outlasted his ...

One recent rumor indicates that Ubisoft will be stepping up Assassin's Creed's release schedule in coming years to a ...

Assassin's Creed Shadows will reportedly double-down on a long-running franchise trend, which just might work out for the ...

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 ...

Japanese history reveals that Hi-Nin ( ()) were an outcast group during the Edo Period. It is directly translated to "non-human" as "Hinin". In Hinin, people were forced to engage in activities that ...

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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 ...

Japanese is a language isolate, spoken by 121 million people in Japanese archipelago. There are small Japanese communities in American Samoa, Hawaii, North and South ...

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 ...

KOKA, Shiga Prefecture--A European-style rapier owned by a feudal-era warlord was actually forged in Japan, but who commissioned the production and what was used as the model remain unclear ...

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 ...