GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Samurai Warriors 5 is out in a few months, and much like every other game in the series that began in 2004 on the PS2, the trademark action of a ...

A gory set of manuals, one dating to the 17th century, advised Japanese warriors in the secret ways of seppuku.

NARRATOR: The samurai were the heroes of ancient Japan. Still ... descendent of a long line of samurai warriors. The samurai were noble warriors of medieval Japan, similar to the knights and ...

In the seven centuries samurai ruled Japan, women played an essential role in both creating and upholding the warrior state ... professor of East Asian history at Marquette University, wrote ...