Half of Japan’s samurai were women, groundbreaking new exhibition at British Museum says - ‘Samurai’ explores over a thousand ...

Silk screens, women's firefighting robes and a Darth Vader costume are among the more than 280 unexpected items that are on ...

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Nakano Takeko was only 21 years old when she entered the battlefield. Women were forbidden from fighting, yet she armed ...

What does “samurai” conjure up for you? A virtuous Japanese warrior in immaculate armour, who’s scarily handy with a sword?

Extraordinary battle armour, complete with moustachioed masks, enlivens this scintillating show, which brilliantly captures the theatrical side of a chivalrous epoch ...

Hisyo Ishida is looking at me with undisguised disappointment. I cannot blame him. His movements are sharp where mine are clumsy. His hair is pulled into a neat topknot where mine is flapping in my ...

Puccini opera gets a makeover by a stage director who gives Butterfly wings to fly and lays bare America's secret about war ...

Misaki Mitsuoka leads the Knights past the Samurai to capture the Far East girls Division II basketball championship.

The Samurai girls have never won a Far East basketball title. Kadena and American School In Japan are among the contenders in ...

The secret side of Japan’s warrior class, Holzer lights up Scunthorpe, Julia Phillips steels herself and Quentin Blake takes off in Dorset – all in your weekly dispatch ...

Jason Momoa looked back fondly on his time playing Ronon Dex in Stargate Atlantis, long before he became the movie star he is ...