"Although Japan Steel Works is a major corporation with 5,000 employees, it also maintains a samurai sword blacksmith, in a small shack on a hill above the factory in Muroran, where a single craftsman still hammers steel into broadswords, as the company has done since 1917." [emph. added]
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Still Following the Way of the Sword
I love this paragraph in a Jalopnik story about the steel company that makes the containers for the nuclear reactors in Japan - The strange link between samurai swords and Japan's nuclear reactors:
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