Genndy Tartakovsky's "Samurai Jack" is widely considered to be one of the best animated shows of all time. Here's what the ...

To get it, you need to throw your blue-colored Boomerang in the Waterfall of Wishing. You will get the red-colored Magical Boomerang back. Use: The Magical Boomerang ...

Samurai schools are failing our children. There, I said it. Kyohachi-ryu School, “the origin of swordsmanship” if its brochure is to be believed, has one teacher and eight students — okay, so they’ve ...

This is a series some have called the “Japanese Squid Game” and the description is fair, though it must be noted that the South Korean dystopian drama (2021 to 2025) came after Battle Royale (2000), a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Netflix’s “Last Samurai Standing” is a TV lover’s fever dream: Take the violent survival games and critiques of capitalism of “Squid Game,” but set them in an era of Japan similar to that of the ...

The ritual of drinking tea in Japan, known as chado, evolved over centuries into a codified practice, steeped in Zen thought, mindfulness, and simplicity. Kimono-clad women participate in a Japanese ...

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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 ...

Jack Pitcher is a reporter in New York covering financial markets and the asset management industry for The Wall Street Journal. Jack reports on investment companies like BlackRock and Vanguard that ...