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They lived noble lifes to impress others

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The term samurai was originally used to downgrade the aristocratic warriors

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The samurai culture made many such different Japanese arts and the tea ceremony

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The ideal samurai was supposed to be a stoic warrior who followed an unwritten code of conduct

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the samurai who were less than 10 percent of the population

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most samurai were forced to become civil bureaucrats or take up some trade during the 250 years of peace that prevailed under the Tokugawa shogunate

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The samurai class lost its privileged position when feudalism was officially abolished in 1871

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There have been many examples of voluntary seppuku in modern Japan. One of the most widely known involved a number of military officers and civilians who committed the act in 1945 as Japan faced defeat at the end of World War II

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Another well-known event was in 1970, when the novelist Mishima Yukio disemboweled himself as a means of protest against what he believed was the loss of traditional values in the country

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during early 18th-century Japan led to the flowering of a vibrant urban culture