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The Scorpion's Tale -- October 2006
This project dates from October 2006. New evidence has come to light regarding some of the Budo masters, and this page will be updated at some point. New links and commentaries will be added to the bottom of the page. Meanwhile, you can find a great many related video clips grouped within my You Tube favourites. I will be putting together a playlist, and I hope that by viewing this material you'll begin to get a sense of the connection between military fascism, Japanese nationalism, and the budo systems.
N.B. For the sake of making this material easier to access, we have placed large chunks of text behind links. Please take the time to read the whole introduction before proceeding on to the other material.
Introduction Some time ago I replied on the site to an e-mail asking 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 20th Century to 1945 and arguably beyond. Read more...
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...
