Beginning in the 17th century, the Nakasendo trail connected Kyoto and Edo, now modern-day Tokyo. Along this path, 69 ...

Looking for the soul of modern Japan on an ancient road once traveled by poets ... a secretive period under the Tokugawa dynasty of shoguns, or military overlords, Japan would largely cut itself ...

Shogun's portrayal of Japanese culture as everyday ... content to recycle familiar attitudes about the nobility of ancient cultures, Western despoilment of them, liberal historical guilt, the ...

“Shogun” is set in Japan during the Sengoku (Warring States) Period (1467-1568) and features a Japanese daimyo lord played by Sanada and a British navigator who becomes his subordinat ...

Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada is no longer waging off-screen battles as he stars in the new "Shogun" miniseries. In the past, while performing in Hollywood films, he fought to offer an ...