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The Tiger and the Turtle: Samurai Invasion of Korea

Conflicted: A History Podcast

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The Japanese Invasion of Mainland Korea

Mainland korea is still being devastated. Cato and his fellow samurai are turning every city and town they enter into a hell scape of destruction, murder and rape. Temples and shrines that had stood for hundreds of years were burned to ash. Tombs holding the bodies of important korean rulers were ransacked. An entire culture was being gutted, and no one seemed to care. The koreans were very dedicated to chronicling their own history. They kept exhaustive, objective records on every single reign of every single king. And when a king died, they'd write it all up and create four identical pies of the document. But miraculously, they managed to hold

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