Before radios, fingerprints, or modern patrol cars, samurai lawmen kept order with notebooks, nerve, and centuries-deep codes. From Edo’s street magistrates to Kyoto’s crisis-era patrols and the Meiji ...

Claims about the extraordinary acts of little-known Africans and Black Americans are a tradition in February, which marks Black History Month in the United States. A Feb. 4 Instagram post by user ...

Miyamoto Musashi’s duels made him a legend. His writings made him immortal. Here’s what history can (and can't) confirm about the man behind the myth. In this 1840s print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, ...

Actor/martial arts champ Mark Dacascos explores the story of Miyamoto Musashi, the most famous Samurai of all time, and trains in the weaponry and wisdom of Japan’s great warriors. Set to the ...