Samurai
Japan's hand-forged knives a slice of samurai metallurgy
Blacksmith Yoshihiro Yauji pulls a piece of glowing metal from the forge in a Japanese village, continuing a tradition dating back centuries to when the region was renowned for crafting swords carried by samurai.
He places the steel under a spring hammer and the sound of the metal being flattened and fortified into a kitchen knife echoes off the mountains surrounding the workshop.
Nearly 700-year-old samurai sword smuggled into Switzerland
Swiss customs authorities said on May 30 that they had discovered a nearly 700-year-old antique Japanese samurai sword during a routine vehicle search after it was smuggled into the country.
Man says he murdered woman with samurai sword arbitrarily in brutal femicide
A man who killed a 28-year-old woman in Istanbul's Ataşehir district with a Samurai sword has confessed in his statement to the police that he targeted the woman on the street arbitrarily because he thought she was "defenseless."
Brutal femicide with samurai sword triggers wave of anger
In yet another case of femicide, a woman has been brutally murdered in broad daylight with a samurai sword while she was walking on a street in Istanbul.
Başak Cengiz, a 28-year-old woman, was attacked by Can Göktuğ Boz out of nowhere with a samurai sword while she was walking on a street of a housing estate where she resided in Istanbul's Ataşehir district late on Nov. 9.
Traces of samurai on Slovenian soil to be explored at Metelkova
The exhibition on Japanese weapons and the warrior culture on the Slovenian soil will showcase museum exhibits as well as pieces from private collections.
Some 50 select pieces of Japanese weapons and protective gear, including state-of-the-art swords and a rare gem, a fully preserved samurai armour, will be on display until 5 November.
The first Non Japanese Samurai was an African slave named Yasuke
According to Histoire Ecclesiastique Des Isles Et Royaumes Du Japon, written by François Solier of the Society of Jesus in 1627, Yasuke was a Muslim from Mozambique. Solier’s account may however have been an assumption, as it was written so long after the event and there is no surviving contemporary account that corroborates it.
Civil War In Japan – The last Shogun marches toward the end of an era
On the 27th of January, 1868, the army of the Shogunate was marching toward Kyoto. For more than a quarter of a century, the Tokugawa Shoguns had ruled Japan in peace, but now the country was once again in turmoil. Foreigners had come to Japan, Dutch, British and French, and modern European weaponry and training had for the first time become influential in the land of the rising sun.
Romania gets 99 medals at WUKF European Karate Championship
Romania ended second among the participating countries at the sixth edition of World Union of Karate-do Federations (WUKF), with 99 medals (41 gold, 23 silver, 20 bronze, and 15 for fourth places).
Thessaloniki man detained over hidden arsenal
A 62-year-old man was arrested on Sunday in the northern port city of Thessaloniki on charges of illegal weapons possession.
According to initial police reports, police officers discovered a rifle, three handguns and more than 1,000 cartridges in an uninsured vehicle belonging to the suspect.
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