They can't see the future, can't control the present and thus they are trying to reshape the past.

Nice, I knew it was from /k but I don't remember which tered or who posted it.

I'm just waiting for the day when they say TAR went to London and actually fought the British white devil boxers in a martial arts tournament using silat to win our independence. Like Ip Man.

After the reunification of Japan by Tokugawa, the defeated samurai were masterless. Combined with the fact that the Tokugawa were beginning a period of insularity and peace, it meant samurai and soldiers who depended on their martial skills were sidelined in the new peace-time economy and culture. These dishonored, defeated warriors have little choice but turn to piracy and banditry. Unscrupulous pirates often hire them to augment their raid parties and they were known as the Wokou.

The ill-feelings started ever since the Japanese and the Chinese empires first met. Both regard themselves as "the only cultured kingdom" and "everyone else are inferior barbarians". As the saying goes, "there can't be two tigers on one mountain, the sky can't have two suns" and obviously this leads to conflict.

Only the sea and sheer distance kept the Chinese from invading the Japanese islands, and logistical and political problems prevented the Japanese from successfully conquering the entire Korean peninsular as a launchpad into China.