Saigo Takamori, a samurai hero who helped lead the Meiji revolt, came to embody the deep conflict between old ways and new advances. Born in 1828, Saigo hailed from Satsuma (modern-day Kagoshima ...

El Debate Seikanro; Saigō Takamori es el del centro/Imagen: dominio público en Wikimedia Commons Other samurai from Satsuma became part of the government while Saigō Takamori took over as a sangi ...

Change was coming to Japan. To the south in Satsuma (now modern-day Kagoshima), the death in 1598 of shogun Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a revered samurai and politician, led to rising tensions from rival ...

Nagasawa's extraordinary story goes back to 1864, when 19 young samurai from the Satsuma peninsula of Kagoshima were smuggled out of fiercely isolationist Edo-era Japan on a secret mission to ...

the True Story of the Last Samurai, recounting the story of this singular figure, ending with a brief narration of his death. He perished in the Battle of Shiroyama, a fight that marked the end of the ...

with Katsumoto standing in for Saigo Takamori (1828–1877), who led the Satsuma Rebellion and has been called the “last true samurai.” Starting the action in 1876 aligns it with America’s ...

But a violent typhoon hurls her 128 years into the past, landing her in the midst of a world on the brink of change – samurai ...