We’re about to get a new Star Wars book “quite unlike any before it.” This week, Del Rey announced Ronin, an original novel from Emma Meiko Candon, will arrive on Oct. 12. The book is part of the Star ...

Rise of the Ronin takes place in 1863 Japan where, after three centuries of the Tokugawa Shogunate's reign, the Black Ships of the West descend upon the nation's borders and the country falls into ...

When a daimyo died, these warriors became "ronin," masterless samurai. After Tokugawa Ieyasu became shogun in 1603, samurai military services were no longer required, and many ronin wandered the ...