Japan is one of the most culinarily rich countries ... The bento has come far from its humble 12th-century origins, but its ...

the world’s oldest manuscript of the Confucian Analects originated from the Song Dynasty between the end of the 12th century and early 13th century. The oldest one in Japan dated back to the ...

As infighting increased through the following century, so did the need to defend Japan from foreign invaders. Among them were Genghis Khan's Mongol successors, who attacked Japan in 1274 and again ...