Hayawo Kiyama of Los Osos was fishing with his aunt when lightning lit up the sky: “It was wide and thick but without sound, ...

Two swords once carried by samurai have been found during excavations in Ichijodani, one of medieval Japan’s largest cities. On the outskirts of Fukui, a city of a quarter of a million people in ...

Essentially, hedge knights are the same as true knights, except they don't serve a lord, master, or great house — very much like the masterless samurai known as ronin. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms ...