Japan's known for its futuristic cities (even those that aren't Kyoto and Tokyo), but its history, particularly when it comes ...

The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of ...

The first stop is Nijo Castle, an Edo-period masterpiece completed in 1603, then expanded for the emperor’s visit 23 years later, as the Kyoto residence of the shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa ...

Nobunaga and his two successors, Hideyoshi Toyotomi and Ieyasu Tokugawa, brought to a close more than a century of unrelenting war by conquering and unifying Japan. In 1603, Tokugawa reestablished ...

After Nobunaga's death, Toyotomi Hideyoshi took over leadership and consolidated ... that limited social mobility and ensured the stability of the regime. Tokugawa Ieyasu: the shogunate and the ...

In March of 1603, Ieyasu was made Shogun and guess which ... or if the crest that we see slashed will wind up being an homage to the Toyotomi clan that was wiped out. Time will tell.

They were Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu. A feudal lord and feared military leader, Nobunaga headed the powerful Oda clan after eliminating his local rivals in the 1550s.