The Tokugawa clan, which produced successive shogun rulers throughout the Edo Period (1603-1867), will hold a ceremony Jan. 29 to formally anoint its first new head in more than half a century.

Ishido Kazunari (played by Takehiro Hira) is based on Ishida Mitsunari, the brave samurai who dared to fight against Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu during the Battle of Sekigahara. Father Martin Alvito ...

Gracia’s husband joined forces with Tokugawa for the Battle of Sekigahara. The leader of the opposition, Ishida Mitsunari (Ishido Kazunari in Shōgun), “ordered Gracia to present herself at Osaka ...

Here’s what you need to know about Tokugawa Ieyasu and William Adams ... of the group and the Five Commissioners led by Ishida Mitsunari. This forms the basis of the conflict during which ...

Japan as a whole entered a period of isolation, cutting off almost all contact with other nations under the government of the time, the Tokugawa Shogunate. Around the 1620s, authorities decided it ...

SAMURAI WISDOM―TOKUGAWA IEYASU― In the 16th century, Tokugawa Ieyasu put an end to the era of ceaseless civil wars and upheavals and ushered in a time of peace that unified Japan. As the ...

Komeito also named its election strategy chief Makoto Nishida, 62, as its new secretary-general, and former State Minister of Finance Mitsunari Okamoto, 59, as its new policy affairs chief.