OTSU--A 30-meter-long stone wall and a moat were unearthed at the site of the castle belonging to the 16th-century samurai general who betrayed feudal warlord Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582). The city ...
Engineering has spent decades pushing limits in two directions: building structures that grow larger every year and shrinking others down to scales that are almost invisible. One of the clearest ...
A 400-year-old stone wall once part of Edo Castle, discovered only last year at what is now the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, is likely the castle’s oldest existing remnant ever unearthed, officials said.