Most people are well aware that the Edo shogunate’s seat of power was Edo Castle, but what of the Kamakura shogunate? The focus of NHK’s new historical taiga drama serial Kamakura-dono no 13-nin (The ...

And so, with one final view of Lord Toranaga standing alone at the edge of the world, FX’s “Shōgun” comes to a poignant, if abrupt end. Viewers who expected the old-school Japanese epic to end with a ...

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Greatest phrasemaker in Japan is Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, who invented Japan’s vague rationalization for the war in China, “New Order in East Asia.” A few months ago he minted another: ...

This guide will cover all major choices and consequences from Chapter 1 to the end of the game. Due to the nature of these choices, this page will contain story spoilers. You can find links for the ...

After being commissioned in 1603 as the official Kyoto residence of the first Tokugawa Shogun, Ieyasu, Nijo Castle continues to symbolise the power and status of the former shogunate. At a period when ...

During the history of Japan, for various periods the power of the emperor was checked as military dictators called “shoguns” ruled the country. The term “shogun” in fact meant “supreme general of the ...