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t1_ivocem4 wrote

It's all nationalistic propaganda and myth made after the fact. The truth is the samurai class exploited and brutalized the lower classes in their society at least as much as their contemporaries in other parts of the world. A samurai could literally execute a commoner at will and without trial. There's are reasons why the Meiji reformers sought to strip them of their powers.

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