Bushido

Why is understanding their notions of duty and honor important to understanding the people of Japan? The easiest way to understand the people of a country’s is to analyze their ancient stories and proverbs. Even though in modern times they are told as fairy tales to small children, it is my belief that they hold essential values in explaining traditions and behaviors of a population. A quick look at stories in Japan about education will make it clear that education begins with teaching the…

The samurai and knights are one of the most skilled warriors that has ever existed. This essay will discuss whether a samurai or knight would win in a battle against each other. While knights and samurai have many similarities, in one battle, the advantage would be to the samurai and this can be seen in weapons, beliefs, and training. To begin with, the first way that the samurais have an advantage is because of their weapons. For example, in document D, “Samurai did not wear armor on their…

Yokota Yutaka, a young Japanese man at the start of World War II, felt a calling to fight for his country. The government indoctrinated its citizens with a strong sense of nationalism from an early age. They instilled a sense of military supremacy that played a key role in how military men fought in World War II. Thousands of Japanese men alike lined up to enlist in the military, those selected were proud, while others felt that they were failures to their country. Yutaka, like many others,…

may seem similar, their differences are greater. Both were wildly used in Japanese history but for entirely different reasons. The ninja star were not sent out for hand to hand combat. Samurai adherence to a high code of honor, called the Bushido. The Bushido were the fierce warriors and samurai in that village to fight in the war, even if you were separate. Both the ninjas and the samurai were experts with different japanese weapons. While the samurai used swords, the ninjas used throwing…

The Japanese had given The United States no communication and the culture during WWII was that of the Bushido code, also known as the way of the warrior. It is a code that had been created in the 18th century and most famously followed by the Samurai. The Bushido code is known as a “way of death,” and not as a way of life. It is an honor-bound code, that speaks in extreme ways throughout the history of Japan. It was largely present…

The Last Samurai Review: Set in 1876, The Last Samurai is about American mercenary Nathan Algren (played by Tom Cruise) who goes to Japan to help train and modernise their army. Along the way, Algren is taken in by the very samurai rebels he had been sent to help destroy. Algren adopts traditional Japanese ways and is soon fighting alongside his former enemy against the imperial forces. The film's samurai leader Katsumoto (Ken Watanabe) and his rebellion against the Japanese government are…

History essay The Tokogawa period, also called the Edo period, was the last Japanese feudal military government which lasted between 1603 and 1868. The feudal system was designed to separate different groups of people and each group having a purpose in the system. The Tokogawa Shogunate was responsible for controlling the samurai class and collecting taxes, defending and controlling the cities. Samurais who were professional warriors, were the leaders in this period, but all of them were…

because of low tax paying. As soon the new rural took over their, they become one of the powerful force in military. By this they gets the upper hand with their work, and overshadowed imperial which end the feudalism. the code which they used was the “Bushido”, The code of ethics thought seriously about the samurai…

Samurai are Japanese warriors. In a battle between Knights and Samurai the Samurai would win because of superior discipline, training and code of honor. According to Japan Memoirs of a secret empire (Doc B) Samurai were expected to live according to Bushido, a strict ethical code influenced by Confucianism that stressed loyalty to one’s master, respect for one’s superior, ethical behavior, or in all aspects of life and complete self discipline. School was a unique combination of physical…

decisions of his presidency, dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After much careful thinking, he reached the conclusion to deploy the two bombs known as “Little Boy” and “Fat Man.” Truman knew that due to the Japanese honor tradition of Bushido, or way of the warrior, there would be no end until one side surrendered. Because of the circumstances Truman was in at the time, he made what he thought was the correct decision. There did not seem to be a better solution, and a land…