覧古考新（ Survey the past to know what is to come ） The centipede as a divine messenger conveys the good old days in Japanese history. Myself is a descendant of one of Kai Takeda clan's retainers called the ‘Mukade’ centipede group of samurai (百足衆).
The Mongols, who at one time conquered all of China, carried out an invasion of Japanese rule, but failed. Why did the Mongols fail to invade only Japan? First, with the navigational technology of the time, it was not easy, expensive, and dangerous for a large army to cross the rough and stormy seas of the Pacific Ocean from the continent. Second, Japan is a volcanic island nation formed by undersea volcanoes and has almost no plains. In particular, there are few plains in Kyushu and the western part of Honshu, which is close to the Chinese mainland and the Korean Peninsula, and the topography of the country is such that mountains are right in front of the coastline. This is probably because horses, the most mobile weapon of the horsemen who conquered the Mongols and the Great Plains of China, could not demonstrate their greatest weapon, mobility and fighting ability, in the mountainous areas of the Japanese archipelago, where there are few plains, because the natural environment is too different from that of the continent. For this reason, the Mongols withdrew from this invasion of the Japanese islands, judging that there was little return for the enormous investment and risk involved in conquering them. With this withdrawal, Japan was historically spared direct invasion and domination by the continental powers. The natural environment and topography of Japan, formed by undersea volcanic activity in the Pacific Ocean, is quite different from the geography of Eurasia, despite its proximity in terms of distance. About 80% of the country is mountainous, with little flat land except for some coastal suburbs. The entire country has a temperate climate, and because it faces the Pacific Ocean, it is warm, humid, and rainy. In other words, the country is naturally rich in vegetation, as the ground is filled with clear water filtered by the mountains. Green vegetation thrives throughout the country, and the mountains are covered with trees. There are almost no rocky, barren mountains or arid desert areas. People live in the narrow plains within this mountainous and narrow country, and in the mountainous areas between several mountains. It is a natural environment 180 degrees different from the arid, vast plains of the Mongolian Great Plains. The Mongolian soldiers who landed in Japan for the first time must have been astonished by the natural environment, which was so different from that of the mainland. It must have looked like a foreign land covered with green mountains, torrential rains, and thick fog, which could not help but look like the abode of ghosts. The Japanese warriors must have used their amazement at the environment to their advantage in their pursuit. For a long time, since the Jomon Pottery Culture period some 14,000 years ago, the Japanese people have adapted to and settled in a foreign land, which seems unusual from the perspective of life on the continent. This unique geopolitical and natural environment of Japan has not changed even today. The fact that Japanese culture and behavior is so different from that of continental Asia, even though it is part of the same Asian continent, is due in large part to the different geopolitical and natural environment of this continent. Japan is not simply a paradise of abundant greenery, water, and food, but also a hellish land of volcanic activity, earthquakes, windstorms, floods, heavy snowfall, and epidemics of bacterial growth. This is because it is a culture born from wisdom and adaptive behavior to survive safely there. The reason why the Mongols, who had overwhelming military power and conquered from China to Europe, were defeated by this island nation was because they thought their winning streak in the natural environment of the continent, which was connected to the land, would work in Japan as well. They also thought that the natural environment of Japan, an island nation, would not be so different from that of many countries on the continent, and they underestimated the situation, neglecting careful information analysis and strategic planning.
First, Korean king suggested Mongolian Emperor to invade Japan. Mongol didn't have naval so Korea made battleships for their new master. The main troops of first invasion was Koreans.
1:42 Father of modern Japan. he is one of the Last Samurai. actually a person who ended Samurai era. 3:26 Kusumoto Takako. this woman is Siebold's granddaughter. what made her so important to Japanese pop culture is that. she is a template of Leiji Matsumoto's female characters in his works. especially Starsha (Space Battleship Yamato) and Maetel (Galaxy Express 999). though other mixes are added to the two respective characters as well. and this made Leijiverse beauties so unique that they are 'neither Whites nor Asian but both' (unless his narration says otherwise. particularly in Gun Frontier where characters are identified by ethnicity). he even cite that his ancestry (who he claimed that he descended from Samurai Caste) is somehow related to her. i'm not sure if he said that she's one of his ancestor or even himself a descendant to this person.
Hopefully Japan will also restore the aristocrat families from the clans under the system of peerage nobility beside the cadet branches of the imperial family by revising the constitution to make it more resemble the Meiji Constitution and repealing the 1947 constitution because I dislike the current Japanese constitution which made by the Occupied-Allied.
