Where a person in China goes to an old Japanese blacksmith who is living in the Chinese city where this takes place. The guy says that he wanted to know why Japan is so difficult for China to conquer, yet they keep on being such violent city-states to each other, which normally would mean that none were big enough or even properly able to repel such an outside force.
The Japanese fellow responds with a quote that went something like this.
He held up his hand. "Japan is like my hand. Many fingers always moving, always fighting for position and always trying to make the other fingers bow to them. It is our way of life. But, when that way of life is threatened from the outside..." And, he closed his hand into a tight fist.
"That is Japan."
We need to remember this. Many fingers always fighting and jockeying for position. That is fine. We actually need it to figure out how to use all of the fingers in life.
But, when the threat comes...
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