The samurai were a class of skilled professional warriors, experts in deadly force. They were similar to European knights in ...

To be a samurai meant position and prestige, but it could all be taken away in an instant, plunging the once-proud warrior ...

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

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