Today the 14th of December is the anniversary of the Forty-seven Ronin attack.
It was a highly disciplined, carefully pre-meditated, and self sacrificial incident to win an honor.
http://www.sengakuji.or.jp/about_sengakuji_en/
I wonder why the story has been surviving in Japan vividly in various forms to this day.
...The madness of the story actually sustains calmness in today's world that is still crazy, ugly, hypocritical and unjust sometimes.
