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  • OVER 100,000 ANCIENT COINS FOUND IN HIDDEN CACHE [Japan]

    11/17/2023 12:00:30 PM PST · by Red Badger · 31 replies
    Heritage Daily ^ | 16 November 2023 | Staff
    Archaeologists Have Uncovered Over 100,000 Ancient Coins During Excavations In Maebashi City, Japan. The discovery was made during construction works of a new factory in Sojamachi district, where a cache of over 100,000 coins was found in 1,060 bundles. According to the researchers, an analysis of 334 coins in the cache shows a “remarkable diversity”, encompassing 44 distinct currency types. The coins have origins that mainly span from China’s Western Han Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty, with the most notable being Ban Liang coins. Ban Liang coins were introduced by the first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, as China’s first...
  • Who Was Yasuke, Japan’s First Black Samurai?

    01/26/2023 12:51:08 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 10 replies
    Smithsonian Magazine ^ | January 10, 2023 | Jacquelyne Germain
    In the late 16th century, the enigmatic warrior fought alongside a feudal lord dubbed the “Great Unifier”Seconds into the first episode of the Netflix anime “Yasuke,” viewers witness a massacre. Hundreds of warriors lie dead near the Honnoji Temple in Kyoto, Japan. The year is 1582, and flames envelop the area surrounding the fallen. Inside the temple, a Black samurai named Yasuke has a tense conversation with the Japanese daimyo (warlord) Oda Nobunaga. While Nobunaga is resigned to his fate, Yasuke remains hopeful the pair can evade their enemies and live to fight another day. “All that is left for...
  • The untold story of the vegetable peeler that changed the world

    09/29/2018 7:18:25 AM PDT · by DUMBGRUNT · 44 replies
    Fast Company ^ | 24 Sept 2018 | MARK WILSON
    Over the years, abridged versions of the peeler’s origin story have been shared in design museums and even business schools. But talking to Smart’s founder, Davin Stowell, I had no clue how rich the history was, including cameos from Monsanto, samurai sword makers, and retail magicians from another era. What follows is his lightly edited story–an insider’s account of the world’s most famous vegetable peeler. We went to knife companies in Japan. One company called Mitsubohi Cutlery, dated back to the 1800s when they made samurai swords. We hop in the the limousine to the tooling factory, and there’s this...
  • Boyfriend's Tinder App Triggers Samurai Sword Attack in Camas, Woman Tells Police

    03/06/2018 9:43:52 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 39 replies
    The Oregonian ^ | Shane Dixon Kavanaugh
    He shouldn't have swiped right. A Camas, Washington woman repeatedly slashed her boyfriend with a samurai sword after she claimed to find a Tinder dating app on his phone, police said. Emily Javier faces an attempted murder charge in the early Saturday attack that left Alex Lovell fighting for his life, court records show. "I just stabbed him!" Javier, 30, told officers outside the couple's Northeast Garfield home around 1:50 a.m., according to a probable cause affidavit. "You guys need to help him!" The officers entered the bedroom and found the walls splattered with blood and Lovell, 29, curled up...
  • 17th-Century Catholic Samurai-Martyr Beatified

    02/09/2017 7:45:20 AM PST · by GonzoII · 10 replies
    National Catholic Register/CNA/EWTN News ^ | Feb. 8, 2017 | National Catholic Register
    Justo Takayama Ukon was an example of ‘great fidelity to the Christian vocation.’ CNA/EWTN News TOKYO, Japan — A 17th-century Catholic Samurai and martyr was beatified during a Mass in ‎Osaka, Japan, on Tuesday. Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Vatican’s ‎Congregation for the Causes of Saints, presided over the beatification Mass of Justo Takayama Ukon, who was declared a martyr by Pope Francis in January last year. Takayama Ukon was born in 1552 in Japan during the time when Jesuit missionaries were being introduced within the country. By the time Takayama was 12, his father had converted to Catholicism...
  • Blood on the Lotus: A history of Christian persecution in Japan

    09/08/2016 5:05:42 AM PDT · by mainestategop · 4 replies
    YOUTUBE ^ | Brian Ball
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVqkUNJYS_E This is the history of persecution during Japan's medieval period during and following the Sengokujedai(Age of the country at war)period and during the Tokagowa shogunate. Also features segments on the Shinabara Christian rebellion, St Francis Xavier and The shoguns of Japan. In additon, an epic recreation of the Shimabara rebellion using Shogun 2 Total war, the battle of the last stand of persecuted Christian Samurai. WARNING! CONTAINS VIOLENT BATTLE SCENES AND SCENES OF CHRISTIANS BEING ASSASSINATED AND TORTURED TO DEATH! VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED! SIGN IN ON YT TO VIEW VIDEO!
  • Samurai, Martyr, Soon a Saint: Dom Takayama Justo

    01/24/2016 1:39:24 PM PST · by NYer · 7 replies
    Aletelia ^ | January 24, 2016 | ELIZABETH SCALIA
    There is a classic story about a samurai warrior who came to understand what real courage, integrity and humility were all about. The cruelest, most violent Samurai in Japan decides he wants to become enlightened. He bursts into the home of an esteemed Zen Master and demands that the Master teach him how to become enlightened. The Zen Master looks deeply into his eyes and says, "No. You are a dirty, vicious Samurai. I will not teach you."Enraged, the Samurai yanks out his sword and places it right at the Zen Master's neck. He hollers, "Do you have any...
  • Samurai slices 100 mph fastball with sword in Japan

    10/15/2015 5:21:55 AM PDT · by JoeProBono · 93 replies
    upi ^ | Oct. 14, 2015 | Ben Hooper
    TOKYO, A Japanese swordsman dubbed a modern-day samurai sliced a 100 mph fastball in half 30 feet away from where it was launched by a pitching machine. Isao Machii, who previously made headlines when he dueled a sword-wielding robot and sliced a shrimp traveling 80 mph through the air, drew his sword after the ball was fired from the pitching machine and sliced it in half in midair. Video of the stunt, posted to YouTube by Oricon News, shows the ball was clocked at 100 mph in the air and was fired from a machine 30 feet away from where...
  • Freepers, I give you 35 minutes of unadulterated, sword-slashing, blood-spurting MURDER!!! (vanity)

    04/15/2014 5:47:04 PM PDT · by Kolath · 25 replies
    YouTube ^ | 04/21/2012 | kolath
    The exploits of the blind swordsman Ichi, the wandering "masseuse" and former Yakuza in a quest for redemption. Haunted by his pasted...hunted in the present....hesitant of his future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1HgAuU1TZs
  • Japanese samurai on the path to sainthood

    01/15/2014 7:34:16 PM PST · by NYer · 9 replies
    Rome Reports ^ | January 15, 2014
    During his most recent catechesis on Baptism, Pope Francis referenced the Japanese Catholics under persecution in the 17th Century. POPE FRANCIS "There were no priests left in Japan: they were all expelled. So then, the community went underground, keeping their faith and prayers hidden.” One of the Japanese Catholics that suffered most from outlawing Christianity was Ukon Takayama, the samurai of Christ. The Japanese Episcopal Conference has presented all the necessary documents to open the cause for his beatification. MSGR. JOSEPH MITSUAKI TAKAMI Bishop of Nagasaki (Japan) "He was a great witness to the Christian faith during this period...
  • Toshiro Mifune: How You Like Me Now? (have sword will travel)

    08/01/2013 6:34:34 PM PDT · by Kolath · 43 replies
    You Tube ^ | Oct 27, 2011 | BlackSuitThinking·
    A fun tribute to my favourite actor and the very embodiment of Japan: The legendary Toshiro Mifune.
  • Mormon Bishop Takes on Mugger With Samurai Sword

    04/24/2013 12:21:21 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 34 replies
    Metro ^ | Wednesday 24 Apr 2013
    A Mormon bishop was the unlikely hero after stopping a mugging near his home using a 29-inch high carbon steel Samurai sword. Kent Hendrix, a fourth-degree black belt martial arts instructor, came to his neighbour’s aid when she was attacked outside her property in Salt Lake City. After being woken up by his 14-year-old son, who had witnessed the attack on Tuesday, the bishop grabbed the weapon he usually trains with before running outside. The 35-year-old victim was knocked to the ground as she left home for work by a man who had been stalking her. He took her keys...
  • Mormon bishop with Samurai sword runs off attacker

    04/23/2013 11:41:02 PM PDT · by grundle · 3 replies
    yahoo.com/Associated Press ^ | April 23, 2013 | BRADY McCOMBS
    Kent Hendrix woke up Tuesday to his teenage son pounding on his bedroom door and telling him somebody was being mugged in front of their house. The 47-year-old father of six rushed out the door and grabbed the weapon closest to him — a 29-inch high carbon steel Samurai sword. He came upon what he describes as a melee between a woman and a man. His son stayed inside to call 911 while he approached the man along with other neighbors who came to help. The martial arts instructor didn't hesitate in drawing the sword and yelling at him to...
  • The Bushido Bishop (Mormon Bishop uses Samurai Sword to defend neighbor lady being attacked)

    04/24/2013 12:43:25 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 16 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 04/24/2013 | Thoms Lifson
    The Mormon bishop who used a samurai sword to defend a neighbor lady being attacked by a stalker is just an irresistible story. So many contemporary memes collide. First the facts, from Fox News: Kent Hendrix woke up Tuesday to his teenage son pounding on his bedroom door and telling him somebody was being mugged in front of their house. The 47-year-old father of six rushed out the door and grabbed the weapon closest to him -- a 29-inch high carbon steel Samurai sword. Hendrix, a bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said it was the...
  • Mormon bishop with Samurai sword runs off attacker

    04/24/2013 12:29:21 AM PDT · by thecodont · 18 replies
    Associated Press via San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | Updated 6:59 pm, Tuesday, April 23, 2013 | By BRADY McCOMBS, Associated Press
    SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Samurai sword-wielding Mormon bishop helped a neighbor woman escape a Tuesday morning attack by a man who had been stalking her. Kent Hendrix woke up Tuesday to his teenage son pounding on his bedroom door and telling him somebody was being mugged in front of their house. The 47-year-old father of six rushed out the door and grabbed the weapon closest to him — a 29-inch high carbon steel Samurai sword.Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/Mormon-bishop-with-Samurai-sword-runs-off-attacker-4457636.php#ixzz2RMbixCXZ
  • The samurai awakening

    12/28/2012 7:44:25 AM PST · by Perseverando · 4 replies
    WND ^ | December 25, 2012 | Albert Thompson
    Exclusive: Albert Thompson says tea party could take cue from rising faction in Japan Can you imagine two terms of Jimmy Carter’s economy immediately followed by two terms of an Obama recession? The Japanese voter can. Since the early 1990s, Japan has gone from recession to recession. Japan is currently in its third recession since 2000. After more than two decades of disappointment, the sun may indeed be rising over Japan. Defeated in the Second World War, Japan – backed by American largess – recovered and became an economic superpower that only recently ceded the rank of world’s second-largest economy...
  • Man robs Church's Chicken with samurai sword

    10/24/2012 5:15:28 PM PDT · by visualops · 54 replies
    41 Action News ^ | 10/24/2012 | 41 Action News Staff
    KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A man robbed a Kansas City restaurant Tuesday night armed with a samurai sword, police said. ---snip---- The suspect drove off in an older-model brown two-toned Chevy pickup truck, possibly from the 1980s.
  • Blind stroke victim shot in the back with 50,000-volt taser by police who mistook his white stick

    10/17/2012 11:58:14 AM PDT · by Nachum · 26 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 10/16/12 | Kerry Mcdermott
    A police force has apologised to a blind grandfather who was shot in the back with a 50,000-volt taser stun gun after officers mistook his white stick for a samurai sword. Two-time stroke-victim Colin Farmer, 61, said he thought he was being attacked by muggers when he was hit with the weapon by the officer, who then handcuffed the retired company director as he fell to the ground. Officers had been dispatched to Chorley, Lancashire - where Mr Farmer had been on his way to meet friends for a drink in a local restaurant - following reports of a man...
  • Citizens help foil robbery attempt in Virginia Beach

    02/19/2012 7:33:33 AM PST · by csvset · 12 replies
    The Virginian-Pilot ^ | 18 Feb 2012
    When two alleged teenage thieves tried to flee a Best Buy, their escape attempts - dodging cars and wielding a small samurai sword - played out like something from the game systems they were trying to steal. Doug Kennedy and his son were heading toward the store on Independence Boulevard on Wednesday night when he saw two or three youths getting away with merchandise. A store employee was screaming after them. "I just thought, no, you can't do this," Kennedy said Thursday. The Virginia Beach resident tackled one. As he tried to pin him down, one of the teen's hands...
  • Old People Line Up To Clean Radiation in Japan

    05/31/2011 10:39:59 PM PDT · by wardaddy · 37 replies
    Gizmodo.com ^ | 5-31-11 | Hodgkins
    Talk about a sacrifice that will warm your heart. A group of older Japanese folks are asking for permission to clean up the contaminated nuclear power station in Fukushima. More than 200 retirees are volunteering to take the place of young people who are exposing themselves to high levels of radiation. The group figures they have less than 20 years to live and will be dead before any radiation induced cancer develops. It's a different story for the young people who have battled in this war zone for three months and are at great risk for developing cancer as they...