Celebrate the Year of the Horse by visiting Japan’s horse-linked shrines, temples and scenic spots where legends still live.

Some 750 years after the Kamakura Shogunate fended off foreign invasions of the Kyushu region, the ancient capital of Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture is under siege. This time, officials are turning ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. A mere hour away from Tokyo, this charming coastal town is quickly climbing the ranks of must-visit ...

KAMAKURA, Kanagawa Prefecture—Tourists flock to the Kotoku-in Buddhist temple here to marvel at and shoot photos of the Great Buddha of Kamakura, one of the most iconic images of Japan. However, the ...

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 ...

SCRIBE STATUE. FOUND: Lagash, Iraq. CULTURE: Sumerian. DATE: ca. 2400 B.C. LANGUAGE: Sumerian. In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that a set of recently deciphered ...

Tim Smith has 20+ years of experience in the financial services industry, both as a writer and as a trader. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance professor who ...

The Danish postal service has announced it will cease deliveries from 30 December after 400 years. Eventually, other countries may go down a similar route Predictions of the demise of letter writing ...

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Archimedes, one of ancient Greece’s most famous and influential physicists and engineers, left a legacy of writings that had been thought to be lost to time. Much of his work only survived through ...

It was in the year 1562 that Oda Nobunaga, the first of the three great unifiers of Japan in this era, entered the city of Kyoto. This is generally taken as the beginning of a new era of unification ...

For most of the medieval period, feudalism was the dominant social system across the world. In Japan, however, it took on a distinct form, adapted to the traditions and the cultures of this eastern ...