One Piece has taken Japan by storm but You don't really think of Pirates in Japan…The Biggest pirates were in Europe, so does anyone know if there was any japanese pirates or what...I also know Eiichiro Oda wanted it to be a Vikings Story but well I'm not sure about this...
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He was inspired by a Vikins anime. Then i guess he just thought pirates sounded better or something.
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http://www.jsanet.or.jp/pirate/
According to that site, there were 16 cases that any Japanese related ship was attacked by pirates in year 2002. 2001 had 10 cases, 2000 had 31 cases. Attack was done while it was on the coast at night and mainly rafts and ship items in the storage were stolen while nobody noticed. There was only one case that involved assault.
Most of the case happened around South East Asian Sea centering Indonesia. 12 of them, which makes it 70% of total piracy.
There's no Japanese ship, and two of those ship had Japanese on board.In Ancient Japan, we had some pirates-alike thing, but… I forgot the detail. It was mentioned in Oda's SBS, so you might want to try look for it.
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There were indeed Japanese pirates. The only one who comes to mind off the top of my head is Fujiwara Sumimoto - a first century pirate.
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You mean Fujiwara-no Sumitomo :P (It's weird in Japanese. In old time, kanji doesn't have "no" but when we call it, we call it with "no." And you mixed up tomo and moto.) He's a pirate around 9th century. (Beheaded on year 941 at age 49.)
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Originally posted by oceanizer@Jun 3 2005, 06:09 PM
You mean Fujiwara-no Sumitomo :P (It's weird in Japanese. In old time, kanji doesn't have "no" but when we call it, we call it with "no." And you mixed up tomo and moto.) He's a pirate around 9th century. (Beheaded on year 941 at age 49.)
[snapback]62445[/snapback]I can never figure out how centuries work. I'm always forgetting. By first century, I meant first millenium, somehow. :huh: