Japan's samurai past is riddled with stories of great fighting prowess
and deeply ingrained systems of honor and discipline. But behind the
stern demeanor was a society coming apart at the seams. Clashes in class
systems and the need for a nation to come together threaten to break up
the old ways of warring samurai--these are tales of such struggles.
This is the story of Japan's history, and the beginning of the end of
the samurai era.
