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 ...

Abstract: The tactile and proprioceptive sensation increases human manipulability, and soft tissue compliance stabilizes the grasping function. However, it is challenging to transpose this system to ...

Netflix’s “Last Samurai Standing” is a TV lover’s fever dream: Take the violent survival games and critiques of capitalism of “Squid Game,” but set them in an era of Japan similar to that of the ...

After finishing Netflix’s latest battle-royale series, Last Samurai Standing, fans were left hanging with plenty of cliffhangers. Netflix hasn’t yet green-lit another season, but how is it looking so ...

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Everyone's favorite amateur film and TV critic and master game designer Hideo Kojima has once again chimed in with his thoughts on a popular new show, heaping praise on Netflix's hit series Last ...

The film was long and getting longer by the day. Worse still, the director was bent on shooting outdoors, on a mountainous peninsula west of Tokyo, and the rain, during the interminably long ...

Last Samurai Standing returns the focus to a brutal Meiji-era survival game and a cast packed with Japanese heavyweights. Last Samurai Standing follows Shujiro Saga, a former samurai who enters the ...

Samurai schools are failing our children. There, I said it. Kyohachi-ryu School, “the origin of swordsmanship” if its brochure is to be believed, has one teacher and eight students — okay, so they’ve ...

The ritual of drinking tea in Japan, known as chado, evolved over centuries into a codified practice, steeped in Zen thought, mindfulness, and simplicity. Kimono-clad women participate in a Japanese ...

Yesterday, I commented that Last Samurai Standing on Netflix had an exceedingly rare double 100% Rotten Tomatoes scores across both critics and audiences. Today, that’s almost still true, albeit the ...