The "Assassin's Creed" series of video games is adored for painstaking historic accuracy, but also sparks controversy with ...

One of the characters is based on Yasuke, a formerly enslaved black man from Mozambique, who worked for the Japanese war lord ...

F rom the moment it was announced, Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ interpretation of feudal Japan was met with immediate blowback — ...

Medieval Japan may call to mind honorable sword-wielding samurai and stealthy ninja assassins ... Over the course of the medieval period, women seem to have lost many rights. In ancient times, women ...

The Japanese tea room teaches traditional Chanoyu tea rituals, passed down by Samurai, in the heart of the city. For tea master Yoshitsugu Nagano, it's a perfect fit. "New York is kind of like a ...

don’t gain a sense of representation by seeing a Japanese samurai, or a Japanese ninja, or a kung-fu master or ancient gray-haired mystic for that matter. Of course, all of this comes with the ...