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 ...

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 ...

Booklovers have a new metric to brag about for their 2025 reading: Spotify Wrapped is now including audiobook listening hours and other personalized data. “Everyone loves politely bragging about their ...

Everyone's favorite amateur film and TV critic and master game designer Hideo Kojima has once again chimed in with his thoughts on a popular new show, heaping praise on Netflix's hit series Last ...

In 1582, the first Japanese diplomatic mission bound for Europe set off from Nagasaki. Conceived of by Jesuit missionaries, the Tenshō embassy was composed of four young Japanese noblemen who over the ...

Last Samurai Standing has now landed on Netflix, a six-episode series which takes place in the post-samurai era in Japan, where 292 fallen samurai find themselves lured into a game of survival, where ...

After watching the first episode of Last Samurai Standing, one thing becomes apparent very quickly: This show rules. I mean it is mint. I mean I walked around my apartment after it was over, saying ...

Surrounded by uniformed snipers, a crowd of contestants gather at a secret location. Soon they will be forced to fight to the death, spurred on by the slim chance of winning a colossal cash prize.

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The top 10 list includes fantasy novels like 'Katabasis' and a memoir, 'Careless People' Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at ...