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

But I have found numerous signs that these categories do not help people today make sense of early medieval Japan. Starting in the seventh century, as a centralized Japanese state began to take ...

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 ...

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 ...