The esteemed Japanese actress Satomi Ishihara, celebrated for her role in Fuji TV’s renowned drama “Bokura no jidai,” ...

Kippei Shîna (Keisuke Saeki)Shinobu Nakayama (Tsugiko Asai)Eri Fukatsu (Fukami Hamura)Miki Mizuno (Chizu Oota)Haruhiko Katô (Mikio Komemura)Noriko Watanabe (Haruko Kumazawa)Sei Hiraizumi (Shigeo ...

While Sengoku Jidai - the Warring States Period - is technically comprised of dozens of smaller conflicts over a ...

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The Jidai Matsuri on October 22 pays homage to Kyoto's 1,200-year history, from the Meiji through the Heian periods, with 2,000 people parading in period costumes. The festival shows the Kyotoites ...

What is it about the samurai that captivates Westerners? The armor and swords, the reverent attitude and the reputation for supreme competence in warfare are all pretty impressive, but they don ...

1467-1568: The 10 year-long Onin no Ran (Onin War) brings disintegration of central government, followed by the Sengoku Jidai (Era of the Country at War). Firearms introduced by shipwrecked Portuguese ...

Takeuchi, Hirotaka. "Henkaku no Jidai ni okeru Back-to-Basics (Back-to-Basics in an Era of Change)." Māketingu jānaru [Japan Marketing Journal], no. 100 (2006).

Today’s horse racing tips come from Yarmouth and Brighton. See our expert’s nap of the day, next best and other selections ...

Cat Ninja and Running Spirit headline Yarmouth feature; The African Queen makes her seasonal reappearance at Brighton; ...

Kazuto Hongo, a professor at the Historiographical Institute of the University of Tokyo, notes in his recent book “Hojo-shi no Jidai” (Era of the Hojo clan) that the source of his power lay in ...