When visiting a museum to learn about the samurai, one might expect to see suits of armor and elegant swords. The British Museum’s new exhibition, “Samurai,” which runs through May 4, does indeed ...

Few figures loom as large in Tohoku history as Date Masamune. Rising to power during Japan’s turbulent Sengoku period, roughly the late 15th to late 16th century, he ruled the Sendai domain with bold ...