>>509987061You mistake me then, and my points stand.
You're wrong to think they don't exist. They were simply adapted to the modern age of "democracy" and "equality".
You don't see them as comparable to samurai etc. because those are historical curiosities to us modernoids.
But rebel against your government (daimyo) by say, possessing an unlicensed machine gun (sword) and they will come shoot (decapitate) you.