The Scorpion's Tale -- October 2006

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Introduction Some time ago I replied on the site to an e-mail from Paul Norris in which he asked me to educate karate practitioners. At that time, I intimated that in a forthcoming article there was more to come with regard to the influence of the Japanese Emperor System and those militaristic, ultranationationalistic, fascistic, criminal and right-wing religious factions that supported it upon the development of the Okinawan and Japanese martial arts from the beginning of the 20 th Century to 1945 and arguably beyond. Read more...

Digression on Rumours

Digression on Racism

Don't Drop The Soap Did you know that the samurai, from the highest to the lowest, were institutionally gay? And that the Hagakure and Bushido: the Soul of Japan were essentially fabrications? Read more...

Links & Notes These are only the beginning...