Japan is having a cultural moment, but demand and deals are centered on regions where the series were hits. By Gavin J Blair Between the tens of millions of tourists visiting and the soft power ...
Most people in Japan have never seen, let alone worn, one of these elaborate kimono. But the true highlight of the tour is getting a real taste of the Edo period, by enjoying the same lunch that ...
Show more In this episode, Greg Jenner is joined in seventeenth-century Japan by Dr Satona Suzuki and comedian Ahir Shah to learn all about the Edo period and the Tokugawa shogunate. When he came to ...
The Hollywood Reporter Japan turned on the style once more for its Trailblazer Award Gala Party, held Wednesday night at The Peninsula Hotel in Tokyo’s Ginza district. The cast of ‘Shogun ...
The character Toranaga in James Clavell’s novel Shogun is based on the historical figure Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616), the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan. John Blackthorne ...
"Shogun" starts with the arrival of Pilot Major John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis) in turn-of-the-17th-century feudal Japan. Five regents rule Japan in the stead of Nakamura Yaechiyo (Sen Mars), heir ...