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Unlocks the mysteries of the fiercest warriors in Japanese history--the Samurai knight, the ronin, and the ninja.

Yukiko is a child of the Fox clan, posessed of a talent that, if discovered, would see her executed by the Lotus guild, accompanys her father on the Shogun's hunt to capture a thunder tiger, a legendary creature, half-eagle, half-tiger, when she finds herself stranded, a young woman alone in the Shima's last wilderness, with only a furious, crippled thunder tiger for company.

When twenty-fifth century time-travelers Dawkins and Hypatia find a plastic artifact among the Neanderthals, it is an anomaly--but on their next assignment to Japan in 1595 they find much more significant evidence of tampering--using virtual reality to induce belief in a demon tengu, and causing mass hysteria.

In eleventh-century Japan, Sugawara Akitada returns to Heian Kyo and his mother's sickbed, where he is soon pulled into his family's complicated lives when he is asked to clear his brother-in-law of a crime.

In sixteenth-century Japan, Taro enlists his friends to help vanquish a dragon in hopes of winning a reward that would allow him to marry Hana, but he also faces surprisingly difficult obstacles as Kenji Kira raises the dead against him and his own flesh and blood betrays him.

Traces the history of the samurai, discussing their greatest battles, worst defeats, weaponry, heroic deeds, code of ethics, and transforming role in Japanese society.

Traces the history of Japan's feudal system and discusses the roles, functions, and duties of the samurai warriors, and how the samuari spirit lives on permeating the business and industrial life of Japan.

Re-creations and on-location reconstructions combine with commentary and analysis from experts to provide insights into the ancient civilizations of China and Japan.

Jack Fletcher's warrior training is put to the test when Japan is threatened with war, and he comes face-to-face with his greatest enemy, ninja Dragon Eye.

Examines the history of Japan from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, during which the island country completely isolated itself from the world and nurtured its own unique culture of shogun, samurai, and geishas.