SINGAPORE – In 16th-century Japan, an African man arrived at the nation’s shores alongside Jesuit missionaries. He would go on to serve as a samurai under the legendary feudal lord Oda ...

Jesuit put more wrestlers than any other Division I school on the awards podium and won a state wrestling championship for the third year in a row Saturday at Brookshire Arena in Bossier City.

the samurai Matsudaira Ietada wrote "His height was 6 shaku 2 sun [roughly 6 feet, 2 inches]... he was black, and his skin was like charcoal." For two years Yasuke aided Valignano with his Jesuit ...

Yasuke traveled to Japan with the Italian Jesuit missionary Alessandro Valignano ... was the first foreign-born man to enter ...