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 ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Listen to these hot audiobooks by the likes of Rebecca Yarros, Emily Henry and Freida McFadden Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Junichi Okada talks about the new Netflix series and how his role as action planner touches nearly every part of ...

As the year comes to a close, we take a look at some of the most popular audiobooks of 2025. As the year comes to an end, we've been looking at 2025 trends. Today - audiobooks. The latest figures show ...

On the joys of having stories in my ears — and yes, listening counts. Credit...By Georgie Mcausland Supported by By Elisabeth Egan It started with “Red Comet,” an 1,118-page biography of Sylvia Plath, ...

Netflix has officially renewed Last Samurai Standing for a second season. Kokushu the Manslayer, also known as Shujiro Saga, will survive to fight another day in the deadly game called Kodoku, where ...

Star and action choreographer Junichi Okada is promising an even "more energetic and action-packed” batch of episodes, after Season 1 topped Netflix’s global non-English chart and spent four weeks at ...

Joe Grantham is a contributor from the UK with a degree in Classical Studies. His love for gaming is only rivaled by a deep passion for medieval history, which often seeps into his articles. With over ...

The film was long and getting longer by the day. Worse still, the director was bent on shooting outdoors, on a mountainous peninsula west of Tokyo, and the rain, during the interminably long ...

The wait is over, warriors. ‘Last Samurai Standing’ is officially returning for Season 2. Netflix has greenlit a second chapter of the high-stakes historical action series that took the world by storm ...

Nagahama Castle is a complex in Nagahama, the city on the northeastern side of Lake Biwa in the Omi province. The complex consists of the island with the castle on it and the immediate surrounding ...