Japan-Land of The Rising Sun

Japan - Land of The Rising Sun

Social Policy: Honor.

Welcome

This page is dedicated to show the historical accuracy of the game Civilization V. For this project we chose Japan as our civilization and Honor for the social policy because Japan is a civilization with a very powerful military and the social policy Honor is really useful to gain a Military victory. After doing lots of research on Japanese history and playing the Civilization V game, we found that the historicity of Japan in the game is pretty accurate.

Game Vs. History

In the history of Japan, they were involved in many wars and inter-clan battles. They have very rich and powerful battle experience especially in cryptic military codes. This game portrays Japan as an extremely strong military civilization with special units. Special units include: Zero (aircraft) and Samurai warriors with Bushido and Seppuku. While playing the game, we found that the leader of Japan in the game is Oda Nobunaga and we think it's a wise choice because he is the one who started the unification of Japan first time in the history. He started from the Owari Province and later he captured Kyoto and one third of Japan, but he couldn't complete his goal of unifying all of Japan. But even so, he fits the role well. It was also accurate to make Kyoto the capital city rather than modern Japanese capital city (Tokyo), because during the time of Oda Nobunaga Kyoto was the historical center of power of Japan and Tokyo was merely a normal city.

One thing that isn't really correctly portrayed in the game is how they described that the units will battle at full strength even when damaged—we all know that a injured person can't fight as well as he would if he was not wounded. In the Japanese history, Samurai warriors were supposed to ready to give their lives for their country, to fight to their deaths if they had to. But if they lost a battle and returned to their home without dying then they had to commit Seppuku (abdomen cutting) suicide. To them, losing a battle was like losing their honor and they held their honor more important their own lives. So we believe that by saying this (that the units will fight at full strength even when they are wounded) the creators of the game mean to express that the warriors will not hesitate to die for their country.

The Legend of Japan

Oda Nobunaga

Oda Nobunaga (織田信長, June 23, 1534 -- June 21, 1582) was the second son of Oda Nobuhide, a deputy shugo (military governor) who held land in the Owari Province. He was the initiator of the unification of Japan under the rule of the Shogun in the late Sixteenth Century–a rule that ended only when Japan was opened to the Western world in 1868. He was quick to adopt new military technology (pikes for foot soldiers, and then muskets), and he was a brilliant military strategist. He lived a life of continuous military conquest, eventually conquering a third of Japanese country before his death in 1582. His work was continued, completed and finalized by his successors Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Social Policy: Honor

The Honor branch is available right from the Ancient era, thus giving the advantage of an early start.
Adopting Honor gives a +25% combat bonus against Barbarians, and notifications will be provided when new Barbarian Encampments spawn in revealed territory.
Gain Culture for the empire from each barbarian killed.
Adopting all policies in the Honor tree will grant Gold for each enemy unit killed.

Our Story In The Video:

The general has lost the battle and thus he is committing suicide, because he thinks he has lost all his honor.
He is ready and the blade is in front of him, then he says:
I am so ashamed of myself and as a warrior of the Samurai, I must do what should be done.
私はとても恥ずかしい。ひとりのさむらいとして、なにかしなければならない。

Then he opens his shirt to expose his abdomen and picks up the blade.
His daughter cries out, saying:
Please, Father, stop. I can’t lose you, no matter what, you are the hero in my heart.
おねがい、どうかおとうさんやめて！死なないで！なにが起こったとしてもいつもあなたは私たちのヒーローだから。
But that doesn’t stop him. He takes the sword and then he cuts his own abdomen and dies honorably.