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.

The traditional katana sword is fashioned only from the purest steel, which the Japanese call tamahagane ("jewel steel"). Over three days and three nights, smelters using ancient techniques shovel ...

Sometimes in this existence, there are burning questions that plague humanity. Pressing matters such as, what is the meaning of life? Or, how did we come to be here? Other times, you just finished ...