The warlords were different from the cold-eyed, dispassionate Japanese men of today. They stood out because of their strong personalities.
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Ichiya Nakamura, a media and pop culture researcher at Keio University. A mania over feudal warlords has been sweeping Japan, battling it out in video games, on cinema screens and in manga comics as sexy sword-wielding hunks. (AFP)
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mareo2
My favorite is Kenshin Uesugi. Once he said "Wars are to be won with swords and spears, not with rice and salt.", today pacifists in japan say that "peace is to be achieved with rice and salt, not with swords and spears". Of course, Kenshin was talking about saving the worthy oponent Takeda Shingen, today we talk about Kim that kidnaped inocent civilians and jailed journalists for use them as bargaining chips. The Warring States period was a terrible time when japanese killed japanese because the central power was so weak that daimios fighted for power. Compare romanticized heroes of a bloodie civil war in video games with a real life peaceful country is not very deep. But I dont see much deep thinking coming from J universites anyway.
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kyoken
Very well said.
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