Only the strong would survive, and strength lay in assembling large armies and ... Toyotomi Hideyoshi was the next samurai to change the course of Japanese (and warrior) history.

The scroll shows 11th Century Japanese warriors at rest and in battle A 15m (49ft) Japanese scroll showing samurai warriors in battle has taken museum archivists by surprise. It depicts the 11th ...

He would go on to become the first foreign-born man to achieve the status of a samurai warrior, and is the subject of two films being produced by Hollywood. Known as Yasuke, the man was a warrior ...