Today, production company World’s Edge and publisher Xbox Game Studios announced the “Heavenly Spear” expansion for their recently released mythological-entrenched real-time strategy game ‘Age of ...

This one's bringing "an all-new Japanese pantheon to Age of Mythology: Retold, introducing 12 new gods, each with unique god powers, divine technologies, and myth units drawn from centuries of legend" ...

Anime often explores spiritual and philosophical questions by drawing on Japan’s religious traditions to examine themes of ...

The series' first new installment in nearly two decades, Onimusha: Way Of The Sword returns to a dark fantasy feudal Japan where samurai clash with the supernatural in cutting-edge combat.

For almost 700 years, these disciplined warriors were respected and feared in Japan, and they carved out a path that made ...

A gory set of manuals, one dating to the 17th century, advised Japanese warriors in the secret ways of seppuku.

On Ikitsuki and other remote sections of Nagasaki prefecture, Hidden Christians still pray to these disguised objects. They ...

On Sunday, the second day, the Kacchu Keiba horse racing was held on a 1.2-kilometer circuit course. Mounted samurai clad in armor galloped through the circuit with their helmets off, their banners ...

IN Japan, the tapir is associated with happy dreams. Known as Baku in Japan, the Malayan tapir is also a mythological creature in the country’s folklore.

TOKYO -- With the 2025 World Expo in Osaka attracting visitors from abroad to Japan, local governments and tourism businesses across western parts of the country are using this opportunity to ...