Since 2015, "Touken Ranbu" (literally “Wild Dance of the Swords”) has taken the Japanese app store by storm with over one million downloads and counting. In the collectable card browser game, the main ...
Forty years -- 40 years for one sword, 40 years to master one single technique. Half a lifetime for one katana. That's the time Shimpei Kawachi's father took to learn the method of "utsuri," which ...
The Okayama Prefecture city of Setouchi is famous for its olives, oysters, and Mediterranean climate, and the surrounding waters have come to be known as "the Aegean of Japan." Just look at the ...