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Last Samurai Standing Season 2 renewal update confirms Netflix has renewed the Japanese series for a second season. The Meiji-era survival drama became a global hit. Season 2 will continue the Kodoku ...

Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s sweeping and experimental anti-war novel John D. Negroponte, a career diplomat and national ...

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Two swords once carried by samurai have been found during excavations in Ichijodani, one of medieval Japan’s largest cities. On the outskirts of Fukui, a city of a quarter of a million people in ...

LOS ANGELES – Actor Junichi Okada has a very particular set of skills. Although best known in Japan as a movie star, the 45-year-old is also a martial arts whizz with a black belt in Brazilian ...