To help document the warring clans of the Sengoku period, Yasuke is sent to collect 9 Kamon Crests from around Japan.

This mission won’t open up till you meet Yasukeagain in Assassin’s Creed: Shadows. You reach this quest after you’ve ...

(Mainichi/Kazuo Motohashi) TOKYO -- Only 59 of some 500 people eligible for a government relief measure to address living without entry in family registries ... husband's under the Japanese ...

In his latest Instagram post, a “photo dump” from his family’s recent trip to Japan, the Thor star, 41, included a snap of one of his 11-year-old sons flipping the camera (and his dad ...

The victory had secured Japan’s berth at the 2026 World Cup with three qualifiers to spare, and the postgame festivities had left the Samurai Blue coach sounding far throatier than usual.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows proposes a vast and generously filled out interpretation of feudal Japan, which means stacks of assassinations to take on and quests to complete. There’s a lot there ...

There is growing attention in Japan to young people who regularly look after family members who require care because of illness, aging or other reasons. These young caregivers may have to do most ...

Setsuko Miyazawa visited the house of her son’s family in Tokyo’s Setagaya Ward earlier this month, but again she could not enter. Instead, she waited outside, stared at the two-story house ...

Jeremy Workman’s documentary looks back at a project that may sound like a joke but had serious underpinnings. By Alissa Wilkinson Jason Statham plays a construction worker who’s as deft at ...

Bukeyashiki Street with the Ashina family's 15,000-koku castle town. The direct descendants of the family still live in one of the upper-class samurai residences. The townscape of Kakunodate was ...

Ryan Seacrest chuckled at a Wheel of Fortune contestant’s family who didn’t seem too excited that he was on the game show. The contestant lost $40,000 in the Bonus Round after a tough puzzle.

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