Japan's Defeat of the Soviet Union

Mishima represents the culture of the imperial officer corps who fought the war in imperial Germany instead, for against first China and then against the western powers. The samurai are at a type of soldierly elite that has existed in other cultures in the world but rarely has been concretized to the degree that it took place in Japan. At times in Japanese history 10% of the population were a credited samurai including women who were married into samurai clans.