“It’s the pussification of Japanese society,” Phil said often when talking on the subject drunk. “The Samurai spirit has been lost. It’s been replaced with bloody Hello Kitty and fucking Pockymon. To think that a once proud culture is now reduced to dirty cartoons and video games. Only one percent of the population in this country is foreign, but go into any karate, aikido, or kendo dojo and take a look around. Bet you anything more than thirty percent of the class is non-Japanese. Kids in this country can’t wait to get home from school to turn on the Playstation. At best, when they do sports, it’s baseball or now, soccer as they say. They’ve even taken the American word for football. One of the most famous kendo dojos in the country, over in Yokohama, is headed by an Australian couple. France has more bloody aikido dojos then anywhere else in the world. Imagine if our kids want to study a traditional Japanese martial art, they’ll have to travel to Frogland. It’s gets me fuckin’ goat, that does”