Yakushi Knives are the inheritors of an ancient tradition and a renaissance that employ old-time forging techniques. Among ...

Matsato knife Review Matsato Knife is a top-notch, razor-sharp chef knife that makes cooking not just easier, but a lot more fun too. Drawing inspiration from traditional Japanese blacksmithing ...

The memorable night highlighted Japanese culture, from a cleansing ritual before entering the temple to a large tuna that players cut open for the meal to a performance by samurai warriors to end ...

Assassin's Creed Shadows is a surprisingly serene open-world game whose quietest moments outweigh its loudest.

It seems like everybody is making Japan-themed games at the moment. Rise of the Ronin. Ghosts of Tsushima. Sekiro. And why not? The era of samurai ... katana and throwing knives, and (as the ...

You first play as Yasuke, a towering Black man who attracts stares wherever he goes, as he leaves his Portuguese masters and transforms into an honor-bound samurai dedicated to the warlord Oda ...

Yasuke uses a heavy kanabo to clobber an opposing samurai. But then Shadows turned achingly slow. I puttered around the Japanese countryside for the ... While Naoe is a Swiss Army knife, Yasuke is a ...

The night included a purification ritual as they entered the shrine, the breaking down of a whole tuna and a samurai performance. “As much as anything, it was ‘kizuna,’ which is a Japanese w ...

Yasuke is slow. He is clumsy. He can’t kill silently. And he climbs like a grandpa. He is the antithesis of an Assassin’s ...