Jin and Inuyama duel in a bamboo forest (a staple of the samurai genre), and it is glorious. As well as the incredible choreography, which expertly incorporates the scenery, the fight’s ending ...

The Nakasendo road still exists in its entirety - as do dozens of the post towns it weaves between - and can form an epic ...

In professional sport, little things can make the difference between winning and losing. Mental and breathing coach Yasin Seiwasser believes in the power of breathing as a way to improve the ...

Yasin Seiwasser believes that most people are breathing wrong – to their own detriment. "We humans breathed perfectly as babies, because a healthy baby always breathes into the nose and into the ...

During World War II, Force 136 agents fought bravely to defend their homeland. This is the story of one of them.

In hotspots like Kyoto you sometimes have to queue for the queues, but escaping the country’s busiest sites couldn’t be simpler ...

‘Don’t worry about swimwear, you have to be naked for the Onsen hot spring’. And with that, my ‘off the beaten track’ tour ...

Etsuko Aoki’s cooking school is located near where the samurai residences in Kanazawa ... “sudare-fu” (square wheat gluten cake formed on small bamboo screens that leave marks on the surface ...

For coastal charms and samurai tales, go to Kanagawa Here's a ... true tranquillity as you wander through an impressive bamboo forest dotted with interesting sculptures and artworks, a beautiful ...

The soundtrack has a lazily East Asian feel, and the reels are situated in a green meadow with bamboo and flowers in the foreground ... by medieval warriors and their battles, featuring a Samurai, a ...

Yasuke is based on the IRL historical figure from the Sengoku period, a Black man who served as a samurai to Oda Nobunaga ... with such ferocity that the bamboo snaps like twigs.