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Sorry and here's your shmoop too sure brought to you

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by a military dictator We're going to spill some secrets

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So what Listen closely we mean way love our military

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dictator nothing else to see here and here's your question

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During the tokugawa reign in japan political power lay with

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what and hear potential and all right is easy to

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eliminate because japan doesn't have presidents They have prime minister's

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Apparently not everyone copies everything american except for mcdonald's Those

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things are everywhere In order to narrow down the rest

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why don't we recall exactly where we've heard tokugawa before

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those tokugawa shogunate ring any bells nata Well let's get

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that mental handlebar choir peeling The tokugawa shogunate was the

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last feudal japanese military government and this government show guns

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were both heads of government and military governor who pledged

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to support the samurai or military nobility in exchange for

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their protection All right now that the bells are ringing

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let's look adoption day prior to the onset of the

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tokugawa shogunate period the government was effectively an aristocratic one

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in that people held their positions by being born into

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that But what exactly can a wealthy socially elitist official

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do when a bunch of samurais show up on his

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land Cry Maybe but not a whole lot else A

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new show gannett warlords had samarai muscle on their side

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which ultimately proved to be more useful than a fancy

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family name Kabaddi japan wass feudal and throughout the edo

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or tokugawa period in japan From sixteen Oh three eighteen

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sixty eight There were in fact emperors not the penguins

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and when you think of political power you tend to

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think of an absolute emperor But that absolutely was not

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the case for basically the exact same reasons as before

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and where can we find a samurai when we need

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one anyway that leaves us with c show guns Authority

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was ultimately both bureaucratic and militaristic meaning more than the

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emperor They really ran the show even if the emperor

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didn't want to admit it because political powers about the

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ability to control and lead and these military dictators were

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the ones doing both We know that sea is the

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right answer Seriously where can we find the samurai We've

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got this jar of pickles I can't seem to get 00:02:16.413 --> [endTime] over Well i got

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