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Cartoon Network has come a long way from its origins airing reruns of older animated series. Here's how we rank the network's ...

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 ...

In feudal Japan, the Samurai were a class of skilled warriors. Wielding their iconic katanas and clad in distinctive armor, samurai were not only combat masters, but adherents of the Bushido Code, ...

“Lone Samurai,” a Japanese-language movie written and directed by California-raised filmmaker Josh C. Waller, begins with on-screen text and a Japanese voice-over reading about the 13th-century ...

For most of the medieval period, feudalism was the dominant social system across the world. In Japan, however, it took on a distinct form, adapted to the traditions and the cultures of this eastern ...