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