the hard steel forms the sword's outer shell and deadly blade, while the tough steel serves as the katana's core. This perfect balance of properties is what made the katana the samurai's most ...

The samurai sword is beautifully curved and extremely sharp, with a single-edged blade that is made with the same techniques used centuries ago. The blade is curved for a rather practical reason.

Roronoa Zoro, Luffy’s de facto first mate in One Piece, is known for his ambition to defeat Dracule Mihawk and become the ...

It has been said that the samurai's sword was his soul. Perhaps this deep attachment had something to do with the perfect melding of form and function found in the katana, as the famous curved ...

A young Nottinghamshire man was caught with a Samurai sword just months into a two-year ... with its 12-inch blade, in the back of a car which was stopped. After being arrested he first claimed ...