One of the characters is based on Yasuke, a formerly enslaved black man from Mozambique, who worked for the Japanese war lord Oda Nobunaga.

Yuya Wakamatsu is now the best in the ONE flyweight MMA lane after he claimed the world title last Sunday in Japan.

Ubisoft has finally announced its long-awaited Assassin’s Creed game set in feudal Japan. Subtitled Shadows, it follows dual protagonists – a ninja named Naoe and a samurai based on the ...

The samurai belonged to the intellectual elite of Japanese society and practiced creative disciplines like calligraphy and poetry that often contrasted with the violent nature of battle.

This was also the first recorded instance of the name ju-jitsu. The martial art later developed alongside the samurai of Japan, and was seen as a way of defeating armed opponents without using a ...