Shōgun has made Emmys history after winning 18 awards including Best Drama, after the series gave viewers the chance to dive into the world of James Clavell's iconic novel set in feudal Japan. The ...

And so, with one final view of Lord Toranaga standing alone at the edge of the world, FX’s “Shōgun” comes to a poignant, if abrupt end. Viewers who expected the old-school Japanese epic to end with a ...

The new trailer for Ghost of Yotei is here and in three minutes, Sucker Punch has managed to tease a ton of cool details from Japanese history. Placed 300 years after the story of Jin and Ghost of ...

The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of stability, the need for them faded, forcing these warriors to find a new way of ...

Ruthlessness, resolve, and luck all brought Tokugawa Ieyasu to power in 1603 as he unified Japan after centuries of samurai strife and civil war. Guardian statues can be seen at the Tosho-gu shrine ...

Sir George Sansom’s history of Japan was first published in 1932 and used in U.S. college classrooms into the 1980s. In it, he described the Tokugawa period (1603-1868) as an era of oppressive “feudal ...

Japan in the 1860s was a nation divided into supporters of the shogunate, which had held power for more than two and a half centuries, and opponents who sought to topple the feudal government. In this ...

Teachers are encouraged to read “Tokugawa Japan: An Introductory Essay,” by historian Marcia Yonemoto prior to conducting this lesson. The introductory essay may also be assigned to students with ...