A centuries-old samurai sword taken from Japan at the end of World War II by a Minnesota Army veteran is returning home. Sam Traxler and his girlfriend will return the sword this month to ...

The residents of the home didn't know what they had. Turns out the sword once belonged to a Japanese samurai, likely between 400 and 500 years ago. “We didn’t have any idea,” Jeff Traxler ...

Archaeologists have unearthed an oversized ceremonial iron sword and a bronze mirror shaped like a shield from a 1,600-year-old burial mound in Nara, Japan. Archaeologists have unearthed an ...

Earle Brigance of Mission displays his prized samurai sword. Beth Lipoff Special to The Olathe News When Earle Brigance gives a talk about samurai swords at the Kansas City Japan Festival on Oct ...

Kyushu is a region where the traditional skills of kenjutsu – Japanese swordsmanship – remain deeply embedded, with more dojo (practice ... cutting with an actual sword).

ASHIKAGA, Tochigi -- The government of this east Japan city announced on March 7 that an affiliate cultural foundation had acquired the centuries-old sword "Yamanbagiri Kunihiro," now famous for ...