

The year is Seitoku 2 (1712), and Japan has a new ruler. But Ietsugu, the 7th Tokugawa shogun, is only four years old. The power vacuum this creates has Edo Castle roiling in political intrigue and personal positioning of all kinds.

Kakunoshin, renowned for his skills with a sword and in the ...

At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now ...

Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous ma...