OK, “ritual seppuku” is a metaphor, but, during Election 2024, legacy media hit rock bottom of a decades-old downward ethical spiral that accelerated during the Obama years. Legacy media are ...

Four texts that discuss how the samurai carried out Seppuku, a ritual death in which a fellow samurai would usually behead another, have been translated into English for the first time. While the ...

Warning: This post contains spoilers for episode 9 of Shōgun. With just one episode to go in the sprawling, action-packed, emotional journey that is FX's Shōgun—loosely inspired by real events that ...

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