Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616) was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, or military government, which maintained effective rule over Japan from 1600 until 1867. The period from 1477 until 1568 was a time of disorder and disunity in...

IT IS NO COINCIDENCE THAT THE Royal Armouries Museum is hosting an exhibition this summer to celebrate the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the Shogun of Japan in the early years of the seventeenth century. Two armours, a gift from the Tokugawa to James...

Najita, Tetsuo, ed. Tokugawa Political Writings New York: Cambridge University Press 156 pp. + lxxiii, $59.95 cloth, $18.95 paper ISBN 0-521-56186-8 cloth ISBN 0-521-56717-3 paper Publication Date: September 1998 This pithy volume, edited by Tetsuo Najita of the University of Chicago, makes...

For Japanese icon Toshiro Mifune, the movie camera always acted as his portal to new worlds.But his trek to stardom wasn't easy. As a war veteran in 1945, he wandered the bombed-out streets of Tokyo after Japan surrendered."I had nothing to eat and nowhere to...