Takechi Hanpeita - Wikipedia

Thank you for the knowledge and history share Capt. Hogan.

The Japanese in the latter end of the nineteenth century industrialized at an incredible rate, achieving a goal few nations are able to fulfill over a century. They brought new thinking and factory manufacturing into their nation without fracturing their society. For that alone they should be esteemed in the west. They duplicated that same rapid industrialization while keeping their society whole again in the latter half of the twentieth century to recover from the national calamity of losing a major war. Their entire infrastructure needed rebuilding. I view the Japanese as a great people, worthy of respect, and an equal partner to the US.

Thanks Maj Marty Hogan for reminding us that today is the birthday of long dead samurai AKA assassin of the Tosa han during the Bakumatsu period in Japan Takechi Hanpeita (武市 半平太) who committed seppuku at the age of 35 because he assassinated Yoshida Tōyō.