Japanese female Samurai craze

What started out as a trend among video game nerds erupted into a mainstream craze this year after young women latched onto it. Japanese media quickly found a label for them -- "rekijo," or female history geeks. "The warlords were different from the cold-eyed, dispassionate Japanese men of today," said Ichiya Nakamura, a media and pop culture researcher at Keio University. "They stood out because of their strong personalities."
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In a store dedicated to samurai books and paraphernalia, a 17-year-old female fan agreed wholeheartedly, gushing that the "warlords sacrificed themselves for justice and to protect the people." Now, she scoffed, "politics purely serves the interests of politicians." At the Tokyo bookstore Jidaiya sales of samurai biographies have jumped 10-fold over the past year, a spokeswoman said.