This much-anticipated game, which is set in medieval-era Japan ... As Nobunaga carves a bloody swathe through the Japanese ...

Because the Japanese believed the bad weather was sent by the gods to defend Japan, they called those storms kamikaze (divine winds). Medieval war tales and other accounts tell us a lot about the ...

Sea Lords were as vital to medieval Japan as samurai, so why were they called “pirates?” For 200 years, Japanese waters were ruled by self-proclaimed Sea Lords. They held immense political ...

As a scholar of Japanese literature and culture, Vyjayanthi Selinger may not be the first person you would associate with medieval studies. But a new fellowship underlines her important role in ...

A performer demonstrates "noh," a traditional Japanese theatrical form. (Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty Images) Among the world’s oldest theatrical forms that is still performed, Noh grew out of dance ...