Mainstream media has grossly misrepresented the history of ninjas (shinobi) and the weapons that they used. While pop culture has built up many myths over generations, the actual shinobi were highly ...

Challenging the popular belief about where the words “crap” and “crapper” come from, reality holds a few surprises!

During the Golden Age of Piracy, from about 1650 to 1730, pirates roamed much of the world’s seas, stealing valuable cargo ...

After the atomic bombs were dropped in Japan in 1945, Japan developed one of the strongest diplomatic relationships with the ...

Italian American sculptor Bruno Lucchesi (1926 to 2026) was a classical master known for preserving Renaissance figurative ...

Debunking the myths about Japan’s shadow warriors is easy, but changing the century-old stereotype certainly isn’t.

The Taiping Rebellion resulted in an estimated 30 to 70 million deaths, surpassing the death toll of WWI of roughly 15 to 20 ...