Any otaku who loves anime will probably remember a series or two with the most awesome fight scenes. Be it with super forms, ...

The martial art is little known outside of Japan and deals with drawing a sword so skillfully your opponent is doomed.

In addition to its famed castle, the city hosted Japan’s greatest ever swordsman as he wrote his famous treatise on martial arts strategy. The history of samurai in the area now known as ...

On this winter ride through sun and snow from northern Tokyo into neighboring Chiba Prefecture, our New Zealand cyclist Paul ...

Many aspects of Samurai culture were banned as emperors returned to Japan, including martial arts. Some Samurai kept their traditions such as ju-jitsu alive, however, with some moving away and ...

Martial arts movies often borrow elements of Westerns ... a vile team of bandits with six-shooters. Bunraku features a ...

encapsulating the way the myth of the Samurai's martial ethos kept its power long after their heyday. But the Samurai's role in Japanese culture is much more complex than that. They were deeply ...

Nobunaga was a great fan of the martial arts and spent a lot of time practising ... When Nobunaga bestowed the rank of samurai on Yasuke the idea of a non-Japanese samurai was something unheard ...