The developers of Shadow of the Road explain how they crafted a steampunk Japan, with tactical combat and impactful moral ...

Amid calls that Self-Defense Force members be honored at Tokyo's Yasukuni Jinja shrine if they die in war, some have ...

Amidst the Boshin War's brutal conflicts, a motley squad of criminals and samurai undertakes a desperate defense – their stand triggered by clashing interests of the Shibata clan, the shogunate ...

One of the best things Baldur's Gate 3 has done for video games is introducing a whole new audience to the cRPG genre. Despite being fairly niche, this category of game has finally had a real ...

11 Rebels is set during Japan’s Boshin War, a civil war between the new Imperial regime and the holdouts of the shogunate. Many nuances of the conflict may be lost on those unfamiliar with this ...

If the festival’s opening film, the samurai epic “11 Rebels,” is about the overt violence of the Boshin War that established this new regime, “Black Ox” hones in on the quieter violence ...

He gives the story an unmistakably modern treatment, while taking a light touch to a particularly knotty period in Japanese history: the Boshin War that led to the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Gallons of blood and plenty of thematic thunder distinguish Kazuya Shiraishi’s energetic action film set during the Boshin civil war. After opening the Tokyo Film Festival, Shiraishi’s lusty ...

History of the End of the Samurai: The Boshin War - There was an agreed-upon transfer of power between the shogun and the emperor but that all quickly broke down.