Sentence examples for samurai from inspiring English sources

A samurai film set in 16th-century Japan but filmed in Durham has also won arts honours for the north-east by winning an award at the annual Film and Video Institute festival.

As a result, it is able to show off its heritage and traditional culture: from the Nagamachi quarter with its samurai residencies to the teahouses of Higashi Chayagai – a district with the only geisha community outside Kyoto.

Some of the games are based around recognisable sports (like football), others around ancient samurai conflicts – but whatever the theme, the nature of the action is absolutely impenetrable to the casual onlooker.

The rest of the exhibit comprises display cabinets filled with military awards and gifts received from around the world, including a samurai sword from Japan and – oddly, given famously tense relations – a medal from Cuba.

Other abiding beliefs include companies looking after workers through lifetime employment and the yakuza, Japan's mafia, being guardians of the lost samurai spirit.

But Takashi Inoguchi, a political scientist, believes the samurai strain has persisted.

But taking on both the bureaucracy and the media at the same time could expose the new government to a war on two fronts.The power of the bureaucracy dates back centuries, when it comprised members of the samurai elite who were encouraged to administer, rather than fight.

Besides, samurai believe it is better to fight to a tragic and noble end than to surrender (which, in the corporate world, is equated with being acquired).There were signs of change in December when Panasonic agreed to buy a majority stake in Sanyo Electric for around $9 billion.

If the harvest was poor, they sacrificed their own needs to give rice to the taxman.That meant that rice was a luxury good, served in the elegant rice bowls of the warlords and samurai at the cost of back-breaking work in the fields.

First, as a woman who was a trail-blazing foreign correspondent in the 1980s, she does not quite fit the samurai mould.

"It's like a samurai boom," says a curator at the local museum.