The premiere of Last Samurai Standing, titled "Kodoku," starts in the difficult reality of 1878 Japan. The Meiji Restoration ...

The Netflix series Last Samurai Standing takes place in Japan during the Meiji Restoration period. The nation swiftly ...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A throng of impoverished, disenfranchised, and desperate people join a game ...

For Japan, 2018 marks the 150th anniversary of the Meiji Restoration; the name given to the events of 1868, which saw the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate (or bakufu) and the creation of a new ...

Surrounded by uniformed snipers, a crowd of contestants gather at a secret location. Soon they will be forced to fight to the death, spurred on by the slim chance of winning a colossal cash prize.

Social mobility refers to the movement of individuals from one socio-economic strata to another, followed by a change in their social status. In today’s world, social mobility is largely driven by ...

IN January 1868 some young samurai and their merchant sympathisers overthrew Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate and with it seven centuries of feudal rule. The so-called Meiji restoration was the cue for such ...

Since the morning of January 3, 1868, Japan has struggled to answer one question: What does it mean to be modern and Japanese? It was on that date that a group of mid-level samurai and imperial ...

Founder of Winterspring Capital, where you can invest in multifamily real estate passively without the headaches of being a landlord. You’ve probably heard before that studying history is important, ...

On Jan. 3, 1868, a cadre of samurai staged a coup at the Imperial Palace in Kyoto, setting Japan on a course to become Asia’s first nation-state. Japanese are not widely commemorating the event today, ...

Daniel was a writer at Game Rant with a minor in Professional Writing. Since a young age, Daniel has been an avid gamer starting with the Mega Man Battle Network series. From there, he branched out to ...