It's a weird subject. The Japanese are scared of having their own army and navy because of what they became during world war II. They make sure to talk about that.
On the other hand, several of the Tigers don't talk about last century in their history books or classes because of how insane it got. China had children fighting with guns in the streets for mao, and Japan had the beheading competition.
Japan was ruled by their shogunate military class and bushido values for nearly a thousand years and now they are scared of having a military i WOULD consider that a rejection of what they should be
Oversimplification amd romanticization of the samurai class. The Edo period under Tokugawa was hundreds of years of relative peace after the unification, and the restoration of the empire in the meiji period saw the abolishment of the samurai class in the 19th century. Prior to Edo, they had a very brutal warring states era that devastated their country. The samurai were not the whole of japanese culture in that era, they were the tools of the feudal lords and were feared by the general populace.
Not sure how its "romanticizing " to say the facts that the military class ruled for nearly a thousand years. i didn't say that their leadership was necessarily good(though i do think being ruled by a military class is better than being ruled by merchants and bankers like today) but i do say that Japan was a militaristic country for a large junk of their history and them completely rejecting this is completely backwards and rejecting a large junk of what their heritage is
It's a weird subject. The Japanese are scared of having their own army and navy because of what they became during world war II. They make sure to talk about that.
On the other hand, several of the Tigers don't talk about last century in their history books or classes because of how insane it got. China had children fighting with guns in the streets for mao, and Japan had the beheading competition.
Japan was ruled by their shogunate military class and bushido values for nearly a thousand years and now they are scared of having a military i WOULD consider that a rejection of what they should be
Bushido is fairly new. The honorable era was early shogunate, and did not last during the civil war period and other wars.
Oversimplification amd romanticization of the samurai class. The Edo period under Tokugawa was hundreds of years of relative peace after the unification, and the restoration of the empire in the meiji period saw the abolishment of the samurai class in the 19th century. Prior to Edo, they had a very brutal warring states era that devastated their country. The samurai were not the whole of japanese culture in that era, they were the tools of the feudal lords and were feared by the general populace.
Not sure how its "romanticizing " to say the facts that the military class ruled for nearly a thousand years. i didn't say that their leadership was necessarily good(though i do think being ruled by a military class is better than being ruled by merchants and bankers like today) but i do say that Japan was a militaristic country for a large junk of their history and them completely rejecting this is completely backwards and rejecting a large junk of what their heritage is