The Pro Shogunate vs Anti-Shogunate debate has been a heated topic in the Rise of the Ronin forums. Rise of the Ronin is set in the 19th century Japan Edo period during Bakumatsu when Western ...

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Most people are well aware that the Edo shogunate’s seat of power was Edo Castle, but what of the Kamakura shogunate? The focus of NHK’s new historical taiga drama serial Kamakura-dono no 13-nin (The ...

This is the final major choice in the Rise of the Ronin storyline. If you’ve been going back and forth (when possible) in choices this whole time, it’s time to choose your final path. This final ...

Rise of the Ronin takes place during the historical period of Japan known as the Bakumatsu period, during the closing stages of the shogunate - a hereditary military dictatorship that had gripped the ...

Greatest phrasemaker in Japan is Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, who invented Japan’s vague rationalization for the war in China, “New Order in East Asia.” A few months ago he minted another: ...

In the late thirteenth century, the Mongol Empire under Kublai Khan made two unsuccessful attempts to invade Japan. Historian Kawai Atsushi gives the background to the invasion, examines different ...

Go inside the sci-fi-meets-samurai action-RPG SOL Shogunate with Game Director Leszek Szczepanski and Narrative Director Cindi Knapton as they take you through the lore of their upcoming space opera.