Silk screens, women's firefighting robes and a Darth Vader costume are among the more than 280 unexpected items that are on display at the British Museum ...

From medieval beginnings, the samurai have inspired art, fiction and films, from Shōgun to Star Wars. But their true story is ...

The samurai warriors of medieval Japan are among the most coopted figures in history. Their legend has been used to do everything from rally popular support for military regimes to sell French fries.

For hundreds of years samurai roamed the lands for instilling justice and educating the population during peacetime under the patronage of their daimyo who paid them regular taxes out of their ...

Reading a few books by samurai there was one thing I saw repeated again and again and again that surprised me. It has nothing to do with swords, fighting or strategy. Actually, quite the opposite when ...

What comes to your mind when you hear the term ‘samurai’? For most people, the imagination rolls out like men on the ...

Listen, nobody’s saying that any of the Seven Samurai didn’t pull their weight, but in terms of leaving an impact on the audience, Shichirōji comes dead last. The only samurai with any pre-existing ...

In the early 13th century, the warrior aristocracy of Christian Europe bound its ruling monarchs to a structured legal system—first with the Magna Carta in England in 1215, and then with a succession ...