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Metamorphosis

It all starts again after the great fire of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The samurai had transformed themselves before. When they ceased to cut the air with the edge of their swords and began to cut it with the wings of their military airplanes.

After the Armageddon, eternal enemies took new forms and the battlefields shifted towards the hearts of corporations.

Then came the time to transmute old war weapons to other of a much more subtle kind.

For the gaijin1, the samurai died centuries ago. Because the gaijin only perceive form. In their ignorance, they translate the word ‘samurai’ as ‘warrior’. Still, a warrior (bushi) is not necessarily a samurai. Nor is the samurai necessarily a bushi.

Today less than ever.

1 Gaijin: foreigner.