Historical anime fans who enjoyed The Apothecary Diaries are spoiled with choice when it comes to other, similar anime of the ...

Greg Jenner is joined in 17th-century Japan by Dr Satona Suzuki and comedian Ahir Shah to learn all about the Edo period and the Tokugawa shogunate. Show more In this episode, Greg Jenner is joined in ...

The word bakufu means “tent government” and is used interchangeably with the term shogunate. This feudal-style government, ...

Nikko, located in Tochigi Prefecture, served as the spiritual center of the Tokugawa Shogunate, founded during Japan’s Edo ...

The other candidate from Japan this year--a set of documents collected at the behest of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616), the first shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate, and later donated to Tokyo’s ...

A massacre of dozens of shipwrecked Ryukyu islanders in Taiwan over a century ago was the trigger for a power play that ...

Japan’s island of Kyushu often gets overlooked by a lot of overseas tourists to Japan, but it’s a place that deserves to be ...

A Zen Buddhist temple in the city of Kamakura, southwest of Tokyo, began airing out its cultural assets on Sunday.

After all, the cast was a highlight of the show set in a slightly fictionalized pre-Tokugawa shogunate Japan, securing five nominations for acting awards at this year's Emmys. Given that this show ...