For more than 250 years Japan has thrived under the Tokugawa Shogunate, a regime that maintains peace through a rigid social ...

Two swords once carried by samurai have been found during excavations in Ichijodani, one of medieval Japan’s largest cities. On the outskirts of Fukui, a city of a quarter of a million people in ...

Netflix has unveiled its Japanese content slate for 2025, headlined by “Last Samurai Standing,” a period drama featuring 300 samurai warriors gathered at Tenryuji Temple in Kyoto, lured by the promise ...

Heck, it got me to watch and review Last Samurai Standing. The concern, I guess, is a matter of raised expectations. By couching its story in the late 19th century, Japan’s Meiji era, Last Samurai ...

Squid Game has crowned its winner, Alice's Borderland story has ended, and Shōgun is drawing up battle plans to return in a year or so. Yet fans of these shows needn't despair, not when Last Samurai ...

The Japanese period series on Netflix is described as "Shogun meets Squid Game". Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...