The Samurai Ethos: Forged in War, Preserved in Peace

What happens to a warrior when there are no more wars to fight? That's the question I tackled with Antony Cummins, an author and historian who specializes in the Samurai of feudal Japan. For 250 years, Japan had no wars to fight. So what happens to a warrior class built entirely for war? In this episode, Antony unpacks the samurai code- not the movie version or the one of legend, but what these warriors really believed, and how they preserved their skills and mindset when the fighting s...