College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn is celebrating Japan’s iconic Shogun era with a never-seen-in-the-U.S. art exhibit. “Hokusai ...

Centered on the extraordinary appeal of "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai, this exhibition offers a smartly ...

Centered on the extraordinary appeal of "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai, this exhibition offers a smartly ...

Ahsoka has become one of the most prominent Star Wars characters, heavily drawing from Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke for ...

Toei Senior Managing Director Koichi Wada denied Deadline’s claim that the studio is producing Yasuke – Way of the Butterfly. “Nothing has been decided yet,” he clarified during the company’s ...

The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of ...

a fictional Japanese female assassin, and Yasuke, a real-life Black samurai of African origin. But while the game has received praise for its gameplay and setting, it has also ignited a lot of ...

A Dartmouth College professor who worked as a consultant on the latest Assassin's Creed video game ended up getting harassed by gamers.

Set in feudal Japan, one of the main playable characters is a Black samurai warrior named Yasuke, who is based on a real samurai of African origin, though the character’s inclusion sparked some ...

Fans of the video game franchise Assasin’s Creed have been pining for a game set in feudal Japan for decades ... the notion that Yasuke was being portrayed as a “black samurai”.

"Shadows" has already sparked fierce debate online and beyond for casting a black samurai, Yasuke, as one of the two playable protagonists. A Japanese petition against the depiction of the samurai ...

Recently, quite a few people I know have started lecturing me about black influence in Japanese traditional fighting arts, because of this "Samurai" called Yasuke!!! Tell a lie a few times.....! All ...