samurai

KOFU--More than 1,000 people in samurai costumes marched through Kofu city and into the Guinness World Records on April 7 as part of the Shingen-ko Festival.

It's not every 82-year-old who can slice and dice a tossed apple with a samurai sword, charm a pack of giggling schoolgirls, and cap off each day with eight shots of whiskey.

KYOTO--When customers pass through the "noren" shop curtains at the front entrance of the bar Shi-Shin, they are greeted by the bearded owner dressed as a feudal samurai.

Shinsuke Yamane of comedy group Chanbara Trio tells his disciples to keep the waist low when they emulate a Japanese-style sword fighting performance known as "chanbara." That...

It's that time of year again for "Chushingura," a fictionalized telling of a classic tale of revenge that ranks among the most familiar of all stories in Japan. Even though we...

NAGOYA--Die-hard history buffs may scowl, and the samurai warlords may be rolling in their graves, but Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura seems to think opening Nagoya Castle to the ...

Rock star Koji Kikkawa and actors Yosuke Eguchi and Teruyuki Kagawa joined the cast of a live-action adaptation of popular manga and anime series "Rurouni Kenshin," it was...

Many cities and towns sprang up around castles erected by samurai lords, but possibly no better surviving example of that lifestyle can be found than the city of Hagi in...