Medieval Japan may call to mind honorable sword-wielding samurai and stealthy ninja assassins. These figures, often seen in popular movies and games about pre-modern Japan, are only loosely based on ...

Eimi Haga followed the ninja technique of "aburidashi", spending ... Ms Haga has been interested in ninjas - covert agents and assassins in medieval Japan - since watching an animated TV show ...

KOKA, Shiga Prefecture--Like the furtive ninja groups it hosted in feudal times, this city in western Japan still has secrets to spill. In this latest instance, researchers discovered the first ...

NAKIJIN, Okinawa Prefecture--Skeletal human remains bearing characteristics associated with medieval people in mainland Japan provide the strongest evidence yet of a migration to the nation’s ...