When pirates operated in Japan's Seto Inland Sea around 500 years ago, the largest group, the Murakami Kaizoku, certainly did not fit the conventional image of pirates. They actually protected ...

The man who led these samurai of the sea was the great pirate lord Takeyoshi Murakami. And now Kaede Murakami, a descendant of Takeyoshi, is an elementary schooler living on an island. On her 12th ...

Ohtani, who led off the inning with a double, said, “When I got on base, I was confident Murakami would come through in the end to bring me home.” Samurai Japan manager Hideki Kuriyama said ...

Japanese Art History à la Takashi Murakami” at Gagosian’s Mayfair branch in London showcases the Japanese polymathic artist in remix mode as he updates important pieces from his country’s artistic ...

Revered Japanese contemporary artists Takashi Murakami and Hideo Kojima both recently praised Sanada’s work on Shōgun. “It’s so hard to make a samurai drama in Japan now,” Sanada reveals.

Third baseman Munetaka Murakami is eager to put his anticlimactic ... double and his game-tying home run in the final boosted Samurai Japan to the championship. But the young slugger struggled ...

MIYAZAKI—Youth prevailed in a dream matchup between a veteran major league star and a likely future one. Yu Darvish stood still on the mound after watching one of his best pitches sail into the ...