Category talk:Japanese military leaders

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I don't know what others think of this decision, but I created a separate category Category:Japanese samurai leaders, and took many articles out of here, replacing them into the new category. Considering the vast vast differences between Japan of the last 150 years or so and the Japan of earlier centuries, culturally and politically, as well as in terms of military technology, modes, methods, and motives, it only seemed right that someone like Hideki Tojo or Yonai Mitsumasa be placed in a separate category from Minamoto no Yoshitsune and Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

I decided to make the cut-off point the end of the Meiji Revolution - I'm really not sure whether or not the battles of the Meiji period can be considered to be in modern modes, or simply feudal samurai modes with the superficial trappings of modern warfare; but the Sino-Japanese War, Russo-Japanese War, and the two World Wars, I hope most would agree, definitely involved a significantly modernized Japanese military. The only entry I've come across thus far that was difficult for me to classify as 'feudal/samurai' or 'modern' was Saigō Takamori.

LordAmeth 04:10, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)