History of the End of the Samurai: Black Ships - The end of the samurai came as Japan was forced to open its borders to foreign trade and policy, ending a long period of isolation. And that period ...

The Samurai class, the military nobility of medieval and early-modern Japan, rose to prominence during the Heian period (794–1185).This era saw the decline of the central government and the rise ...

You can catch the full reveal trailer for Shadows, until recently known as Assassin's Creed Red, just below. Yasuke, Japan's first recorded Black Samurai in history, and retainer to Oda Nobunaga ...

Japanese historian Yu Hirayama has weighed in on the argument and said that there is "no doubt" that he was a samurai who served Nobunaga. Hirayama says that historical documents show that Yasuke ...

This is Yasuke, Japan’s first Black samurai, and the first real historical person to be a playable protagonist in an Assassin’s Creed game. Assassin's Creed Shadows - Art and Concept Art View ...

A Japanese sea known for its often clear waters turned into a gruesome shade of red after a beer factory sprung a leak. Residents in the city of Nago on the island of Okinawa woke up to find the ...

For hundreds of years, samurai, a class of elite warriors, shaped Japanese history, and tales of their exploits and adventures remain the stuff of legends. One of the most fascinating and ...

Assassin’s Creed Shadows introduces a black samurai – that’s not as unprecedented as critics claim Published: ... it’s not the first piece of media to depict a non-Japanese samurai.

Though Yasuke was the only Black samurai in Nobunaga’s army, he was by no means the only African present in Japan at the time. “Several hundred African people lived in Japan during the 16th ...

Classic Japanese film 'Seven Samurai' returns to movie theaters in July with 4K restoration Director Akira Kurosawa's classic 1954 heroes-on-a-mission movie 'Seven Samurai,' which starred Toshiro ...

The two arrived in Japan in 1579 (the year Assassin’s Creed Shadows begins), and the tall African mercenary stunned the Japanese locals. In a diary from that year, the samurai Matsudaira Ietada ...