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

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

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 ...

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 ...

00:43 But you can still find a little bit of the heart of the samurai in Japan's martial arts, kendo. 00:52 And I used to be a competitive fencer, so I love swords and swordsmanship and battling ...

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

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 ...

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 ...