TL;DR: Japan's Prime Minister discussed Assassin's Creed Shadows in parliament due to concerns over its depiction of historical sites without permission, such as the Itatehyouzu Shrine.

These issues arise amid increased tourism in Japan post-pandemic. The release of Assassin's Creed Shadows has reached the Japanese government, which expressed deep concerns about its contents and ...

Assassin’s Creed Shadows has a historical setting Assassin’s Creed Shadows is set during the late Sengoku period amid Japan’s unification under Oda Nobunaga. The game features a vast ...

Ubisoft's new game, Assassin’s Creed: Shadows, has sparked controversy in Japan due to its portrayal of a real Shinto shrine. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba condemned the game's depiction of ...

(UPDATE) TOKYO — A Japanese lawmaker on Wednesday slammed the latest video game in the hit "Assassin's Creed" series, complaining that a samurai character destroys the interior of a Shinto shrine.

A day one patch for Assassin’s Creed Shadows will remove a controversial feature of the game, following backlash from a number of people including Japan’s prime minister. Speaking in ...

This is a supreme Assassin's Creed game. A supreme game ... all undulations and foliage and flying bugs. Indeed, this Japan is so beautiful that it rather distracts from Shadows' flaws, such ...

Like past Assassin’s Creed games, Shadows serves up a clear premise: saving Japan from malevolent actors, this time through two controllable characters, Yasuke and Naoe, an African-born samurai ...

It’s the Assassin’s Creed game set in feudal Japan that a lot of players have always wanted, and against all odds, Ubisoft has pulled it off with style and aplomb.