Ruthlessness, resolve, and luck all brought Tokugawa Ieyasu to power in 1603 as he unified Japan after centuries of samurai strife and civil war. Guardian statues can be seen at the Tosho-gu shrine ...

Westworld the show may be named after Delos's Wild West park, but after Sunday's "Akane No Mai" episode, everyone is talking about Shogun World, the extra-violent, samurai-filled park that Maeve, ...

This new special exhibition at the Edo-Tokyo Museum focuses on how the Tokugawa shogunate was formed. Displays include objects linked to the shogunal family, which ruled Japan for over 250 years. Even ...

Editor’s note: This article discusses historical events that may spoil upcoming seasons of the “Shogun” TV series. Perhaps my favorite shot from the original 1980 “Shogun” miniseries was when a group ...

A new adaptation offers a fresh take on James Clavell’s 1975 novel, which fictionalizes the stories of English sailor William Adams, shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu and Japanese noblewoman Hosokawa Gracia ...

FX’s period drama series Shogun premieres soon on Disney+ Hotstar (Photo Credit –IMDb) Streaming platform Disney+ Hotstar is all set to transport its audience to medieval Japan. The highly anticipated ...

Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first “Shogun,” who in 1603 founded the dynasty and established military government (“bakufu”) that ruled Japan from “Edo” (today’s Tokyo) until 1863, was born in Okazaki Castle, ...

SAN FRANCISCO--The highly acclaimed series “Shogun” has been nominated in four categories of the 82nd Golden Globes, including for best television drama series, it was announced on Dec. 9. Hiroyuki ...

You could argue that much of what exists in Japan today is there, at least in part, thanks to Tokugawa Ieyasu. The founder of the Tokugawa shogunate that ruled Japan for more than 250 years, Ieyasu ...