The other four ships in its fleet, with their hundreds of sailors, had met grislier fates. One ship didn’t even make it out of port before it began to sink. The others disappeared, ran aground or were ...

The original Shōgun was a rare phenomenon. More than 1,200 pages and 400,000 words in length, it proved stunningly successful, staying on the best-seller list for more than 30 weeks and selling ...

In 1600, the ailing Dutch trading ship Liefde washed ashore at Usuki Bay, on Japan’s southern island of Kyushu. Among its crew was William Adams, a 35-year-old Englishman who served as the ship’s ...

My parents are in their 90s and thankfully, still kicking it. (My father says my mother is kicking him to clean the balcony, wash the dishes and fix the sliding closet doors.) They bought a final ...

Screenshots for two new characters have been revealed. Nioh is based on the story of English sailor William Adams who was the first Western Samurai - and there weren't any of them. Obviously the tale ...

You could argue that much of what exists in Japan today is there, at least in part, thanks to Tokugawa Ieyasu. The founder of the Tokugawa shogunate that ruled Japan for more than 250 years, Ieyasu ...