Journey to Japan’s lesser-visited mountainous region, home to many distinctive traditional inns, within whose walls you can ...

Archaeologists rediscover Ichijodani, a formidable stronghold that flourished amid medieval Japan’s brutal power struggles ...

Planning a trip to Japan? Here are some articles you ... the progress of any would-be invaders. Within the castle walls, the spirit of the samurai lives on. Archaeological digs around the fortress ...

That’s because Uraku is the cafe attached to Nagoya Touken World, a museum of samurai swords and armor in downtown ... tiered meal served not in an orthodox bento box, but in a Japanese castle bento.

With "Anākī: The Law and Economics of Samurai Organization," Leeson examines the birth of the Kamakura Bakufu (literally "tent government") in medieval Japan. The samurai were a class of skilled ...

The Tohoku region of Japan is synonymous with the great 17 ... The land he described was one of holy mountains, samurai castles, pine forests and wayside inns strung along post roads: a wild ...