Some 750 years after the Kamakura Shogunate fended off foreign invasions of the Kyushu region, the ancient capital of ...

Greatest phrasemaker in Japan is Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, who invented Japan’s vague rationalization for the war in China, “New Order in East Asia.” A few months ago he minted another: ...

The Pro Shogunate vs Anti-Shogunate debate has been a heated topic in the Rise of the Ronin forums. Rise of the Ronin is set in the 19th century Japan Edo period during Bakumatsu when Western ...

FUKUYAMA, Hiroshima -- Three seals thought to have been used by a high official of the Tokugawa shogunate at the time U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew Perry came to Japan have been discovered, it was ...

OSAKA -- A letter penned by Edo-period tea master and landscape architect Kobori Enshu (1579-1647) indicating the possibility that there was a plan to move the Tokugawa shogunate headquarters from ...

Historian Arano Yasunori helped revolutionize our perception of early modern Japan by challenging the notion that the country was uniquely isolated during the Edo period. Here Arano provides a thought ...

In the late thirteenth century, the Mongol Empire under Kublai Khan made two unsuccessful attempts to invade Japan. Historian Kawai Atsushi gives the background to the invasion, examines different ...

While Crusader Kings III's world map doesn't (yet) include East Asia, you can still go visit for a few hundred years. The Shogunate is a total conversion mod for the medieval grand strategy game that ...