HOUSTON, Texas – For weeks, a group of Buddhist monks walking across the country on a 2,300-mile “Walk for Peace” made their way through Texas before two members of the group were injured in a crash ...

Samurai schools are failing our children. There, I said it. Kyohachi-ryu School, “the origin of swordsmanship” if its brochure is to be believed, has one teacher and eight students — okay, so they’ve ...

Yesterday, I commented that Last Samurai Standing on Netflix had an exceedingly rare double 100% Rotten Tomatoes scores across both critics and audiences. Today, that’s almost still true, albeit the ...

In 1582, the first Japanese diplomatic mission bound for Europe set off from Nagasaki. Conceived of by Jesuit missionaries, the Tenshō embassy was composed of four young Japanese noblemen who over the ...

Last Samurai Standing has now landed on Netflix, a six-episode series which takes place in the post-samurai era in Japan, where 292 fallen samurai find themselves lured into a game of survival, where ...

More than a dozen Buddhist monks stopped in Houston on Nov. 14, 2025, as part of a 2,000-mile journey on foot. At the corner of Bellaire Boulevard and Boone Road, on a warm day in west Houston, more ...

Nearly 20 Buddhist monks who walked from Fort Worth to Houston received a warm welcome at Hong Kong City Mall on Friday morning as community members sought their blessings and celebrated their journey ...

As the Meiji Era begins, an honorable samurai is forced to fight again, so that his family may live. The six-episode Last Samurai Standing, directed and co-written by Michihito Fujii, and based on the ...

Junichi Okada stars, produces and did the action choreography on this six-part series about a nefarious game pitting samurai against each other in 19th-century Japan. By Daniel Fienberg Chief ...

Texas highways, notorious for their automotive congestion, also got some foot traffic this week. In a TikTok posted by @356am on November 4, more than a dozen Buddhist monks — plus a dog named Aloka — ...