Japan

Turning Japanese.

Thousand Arrows is a tabletop roleplaying game of samurai warfare, drama, and tragedy in the Warring States Period.

Run your own rose garden—manage, grow, hybridize, and deliver your beautiful blooms with your cute garden robots!

Daimyo: A Mass Battle Samurai Wargame is the lastest game is the Osprey Wargames series. Daimyo balances a ‘beer and pretzels’ style ruleset with accurate representations of mass battles during Japan’s Sengoku period. While many excellent wargames model small-scale skirmish combat from this era, Daimyo puts players in command of entire armies.

A Fire Chief in Japan has been suspended, and nine other firefighters issued reprimands and written warnings, for playing homemade boardgames during working hours, and forcing subordinates to particpate.

Japon Brand will be joining Fantasy Flight Games, Days of Wonder, Catan Studios, Z-Man Games and many other popular publishing houses as part of the Asmodee family. Alongside the purchase of Japon Brand Asmodee are also launching Nekuma, a new studio dedicated to Japanese games.

Wargames Atlantic and Helion bring us ‘Heiho: The Art of War’, a collaboration bringing nearly a thousand 10mm hard plastic figures to your tabletop for recreating the massive battles of Sengoku-era Japan. The box set includes 988 miniatures across eight frames of Ashigaru, four of Samurai, and two of Command units, alongside bases, dice, tokens, and the complete rulebook. Designed by Pauli Kidd - a 20-year student of Katori Shinto Ryu (sword fighting to you and me) and author of numerous works on Japanese history and culture and big name RPGs - the rules accommodate armies ranging from 20,000 to 100,000 warriors and support famous engagements like Kawanakajima and Sekigahara.