Japanese history reveals that Hi-Nin ( ()) were an outcast group during the Edo Period. It is directly translated to "non-human" as "Hinin". In Hinin, people were forced to engage in activities that ...

Medieval Japan may call to mind honorable sword-wielding samurai ... Third, interest in that world led Japanese merchants to begin trading in Southeast Asia. Some Japanese even emigrated, establishing ...

Missionaries had introduced Christianity to Japan in 1549 during a pivotal period in the country’s history. For more than a century, between 1467 and 1603, rival feudal lords known as daimyo ...

Japan The three samurai who unified Medieval Japan The three samurai who unified Medieval Japan This shogun outwitted and outlasted his rivals to rule Japan This shogun outwitted and outlasted his ...

A wooden notice resembling a kosatsu (signboard that announced official edicts in feudal Japan) was recently erected outside of the city hall in Matsue, capital of Shimane Prefecture. The notice — ...

The Japanese economy emerged from the ashes of World War ... Compared to France, India, Italy, and Brazil, it would be the sixth wealthiest nation on Earth. Feudal Japan placed merchants at the bottom ...

Sir George Sansom’s history of Japan was first published in ... as an era of oppressive “feudal” rule. In this view, hierarchical divisions between samurai, peasant, artisan, and merchant were ...