Welcome Extra Historians to Lies, where we talk about the mistakes we made and the details we couldn't quite squeeze into our Japanese Militarism series. With questions like, What type of rifles did ...

More than 3,000 members of Japan's largest Yakuza gang recently split ... crazy tattooed gangsters running around with swords and guns killing each other every chance they got.

constructed by Imperial Japan during World War II, were the largest and most heavily armed battleships ever built. -Despite their formidable 18-inch guns and thick armor, all three completed ships ...

Gangs affiliated with the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan’s largest organized crime syndicate, have ordered their members not to use guns in public to shield their senior leaders from criminal ...

designed by Imperial Japan before World War II to assert naval dominance. Comprising three ships—Yamato, Musashi, and Shinano—they featured unprecedented 18-inch guns capable of firing 3,200 ...