Seki Nobuhide Sensei, a martial arts and katana instructor, rates portrayals of samurai battles in movies and TV shows. He explains why samurai employed different types of spears in battle in "Shogun.

Samurai artist Tetsuro Shimaguchi, head of the samurai school Kamui, is training a new generation of youth from around the world in the ways of the sword, as well as the warrior's mindset. Tetsuro has ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As you enter the suitably frightening half-light of the British Museum’s new Samurai exhibition, you are ...