One of the last samurais in the world lives in Hungary
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The “samurai of Pécs”, Suzuki Kimiyoshi lives in the Mecsek with his wife. The 82-year-old martial artist was born in Tokyo and moved to Hungary 24 years ago. He no longer misses Japan, and when he does go back, it is to learn new martial art techniques, which he then imparts to his students in schools and in the training hall of his house, hirado.hu writes.
After their rebellion was defeated, the age of samurais in Japan officially ended in 1877. However, their traditions lived on and continued to define the image of the country. Today there are only a few samurais left who were trained in the traditional ways. The grandfather of Suzuki Kimiyoshi was one of the samurais of the old days; to commemorate him, an obelisk was built in Japan, on the island of Hokkaido.
Starting in ‘80s, Suzuki Kimiyoshi visited Hungary many times, and, after making some friends and meeting his current wife, he settled down in Pécs, in the south of the country, in 1992. His wife is Hungarian, and he speaks the language, as well.
In the beginning, the Hungarian mentality felt strange to him. He said in the Kossuth Radio programme Közelről: “Hungarians seemed rough and violent at first, but I’ve got used to it over time, and now, whenever I visit Japan, I feel like everyone is overly nice,” he said.
Total B.S., i have a 3rd degree in Samurai sword draw, a hungarian, and the only thing these Japs could show me after the first degree was how to suck back a pint of beer. Don’t let these guys fool you into believing that they invented any of this. Go search for UYGHURs and see what you find. China and Japan are western propaganda B.S., they only inherited what we already knew and taught them.