Visitors can take part in the traditional Mamemaki ceremony, tossing roasted soybeans in a ritual meant to clear out negative energy and invite a fresh start for spring.

Led by practitioners from the Urasenke school, the experience highlights the cultural significance and artistry behind this centuries-old ritual.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Junichi Okada talks about the new Netflix series and how his role as action planner touches nearly every part of ...

Star and action choreographer Junichi Okada is promising an even "more energetic and action-packed” batch of episodes, after Season 1 topped Netflix’s global non-English chart and spent four weeks at ...

The film was long and getting longer by the day. Worse still, the director was bent on shooting outdoors, on a mountainous peninsula west of Tokyo, and the rain, during the interminably long ...

Azuchi Castle is the main fortress in the titular city of Azuchi, located on the eastern side of Lake Biwa in the Omi province. It's unique for two reasons: The Samurai Daisho don't appear until ...

“Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea,” wrote Henry James in “The Portrait of a Lady.” “Teatime” is one ...

As the Meiji Era begins, an honorable samurai is forced to fight again, so that his family may live. The six-episode Last Samurai Standing, directed and co-written by Michihito Fujii, and based on the ...

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.

TOKYO (AP) — “Last Samurai Standing,” a Netflix series launching on Thursday, is set in a Japan where the feudal samurai era is about to end. The hero, Saga Kokushu, played by Junichi Okada, is one of ...

Junichi Okada stars, produces and did the action choreography on this six-part series about a nefarious game pitting samurai against each other in 19th-century Japan. By Daniel Fienberg Chief ...

This image released by Netflix shows, from left, Junichi Okada, Yumia Fujisaki, Kaya Kiyohara and Masahiro Higashide in a scene from "The Last Samurai Standing." (Chihoko Ishii/Netflix via AP) TOKYO ...