Japan, with famously strict laws, has among the world's lowest rates of gun ownership and gun violence. In 2018 there were just nine firearm deaths reported in Japan, compared with 39,740 in the U.S.

Gun power. The first guns, long-barreled firearms called harquebuses, had arrived with ship­wrecked Portuguese sailors in 1543. ... Japan’s first Black samurai. HISTORY MAGAZINE.

Japan, with famously strict laws, has among the world's lowest rates of gun ownership and gun violence. In 2018 there were just nine firearm deaths reported in Japan, compared with 39,740 in the U.S.

Set in feudal Japan, the epic samurai megahit "Shogun" combines the talents of Japanese and Western actors and crew. "Sh ō gun," FX's megahit samurai epic should be a lock for multiple Emmy ...

Japanese and American cinema have always maintained staunch and different cultural styles and identities, and yet, their influence on each other steadily mixes and mingles on both fronts. Samurai ...

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To the honored ranks of the warrior classes last week were admitted the little people of Japan, ... JAPAN: New Samurai; JAPAN: New Samurai. 1 minute read. TIME. January 3, 1944 12:00 AM GMT-4.

Samurai who were members of the Bakufu were called gokenin, or honorable housemen. Only they could bring suit in Bakufu courts, so only they enjoyed its full protection and benefits.

The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of stability, the need for them faded, forcing these warriors to find a new way ...

Among them: The head of the Japan Socialist Party was killed during a 1960 speech by a right-wing youth with a samurai short sword, and a yakuza gangster fatally shot the mayor of Nagasaki in 2007.