A book to read before the 2026 Taiga drama! “Hideyoshi Reconsidered” released on October 28, 2025
Wanibooks Inc. Press release: October 28, 2025 To Members of the Press A book you should read before the 2026 Taiga Drama! “Rethinking Hideyoshi” Release Date: October 28, 2025 Was Toyotomi Hideyoshi good or evil? This book explores Hideyoshi from a completely new
perspective, including the world situation at the time, a contemporary political perspective, legal history, and the Imperial Family!
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once-in-two-thousands-years master of charm. ◇Why was Hideyoshi able to rise to prominence despite his frail physique? ◇Challenging recent historical views! Was there any inevitability to Nobunaga’s
unification of Japan? ◇Nobunaga’s incompetent vassals and commands, orders, and directives that are still relevant today ◇Was the burning of Mount Hiei actually legal under modern international law?! ◇Confirming Shingen’s death is similar to confirming the life or death of a North Korean leader. ◇During the Sengoku period, battles were decided by propaganda and indirect invasion. ◇Mitsuhide and Hideyoshi were intelligence officers? Who was the villain? ◇The three idiot vassals of Hideyoshi’s inner circle that make you want to cry ◇What kind of person was Toyotomi Hidenaga, the protagonist of the 2026 taiga drama “Toyotomi Brothers!”? ◇Was the Nobunaga army that everyone loves really an army? ◇Far from being risk-free, a single mistake would have resulted in ruin ◇The crucial reason why the Hideyoshi mastermind theory doesn’t hold up ◇Psychological warfare and resolve were more crucial than the Great Return to China ◇The only way Mitsuhide could have defeated Napoleon ◇The geopolitics after the Kiyosu Conference and Hideyoshi and Ieyasu’s propaganda that portrayed only Mitsuhide as the villain ◇Zelensky and Uesugi Kagekatsu ◇Hideyoshi’s achievement of abdicating for the first time in a hundred years ◇Hideyoshi abused his authority and created a “closed imperial family” ◇The Toyotomi Peace Edict was a precursor to modern law >◇Toyotomi Hideyoshi also opened the door to the modern era ◇The real reason why the Hojo obeyed Nobunaga and resisted Hideyoshi, whom they could not possibly defeat ◇The meaning of prohibiting self-help and the conditions for a civilized country that we can learn from Hideyoshi ◇Pre-Thirty Years’ War, the Far Eastern front ◇The order to expel the missionaries was truly an extremely critical decision ◇The invasion of Korea was thought to be crazy, but when we look at it again… ◇The problem with Hideyoshi’s invasion of Korea was that he lost a war that he should have completely won ◇The biggest reason the Toyotomi administration did not last was the Hidetsugu incident ◇So, what were the conditions for Hideyoshi’s administration to survive? Excerpt from the main text He is a once-in-a-lifetime hero known to all Japanese people. And yet, portraying Hideyoshi is extremely difficult. Why is it difficult? From the Edo period until the defeat in the Showa era, and for some time after the war, Hideyoshi was generally portrayed as a bright, good guy, “the most successful man in Japan.” However, towards the end of the 20th century, his cruelty began to be emphasized. Should I portray Hideyoshi as a good guy or a bad guy? I struggled with this, but ultimately realized that I just needed to portray Hideyoshi as he really was. This book draws on the latest research on Hideyoshi to portray him as he really was. However, even so, Hideyoshi remains a difficult character to portray. This is because, of the so-called “Three Great Heroes” – Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu – Hideyoshi was the only one who was a true genius. (Omitted) What was so great about Hideyoshi? This book takes a bird’s-eye view of the world situation at the time, and uses a perspective that can also be used to interpret modern politics, presenting the significance of Hideyoshi in legal history and reconsidering the role of the Imperial family. (From the main text) [Profile] Kurayama Mitsuru Constitutional history researcher. Born in Kagawa Prefecture in 1973 (Showa 48). Chairman and Director of the National Salvation Think Tank (General Incorporated Association). After graduating from Chuo University’s Faculty of Letters, Department of History, majoring in Japanese History, in 1996, he completed his doctoral studies at the same university’s graduate school. While still a student, he served as a part-time researcher at Kokushikan University’s Japan Institute of Politics and Religion, where he taught on the Constitution of Japan until 2015. In 2012, he served as Director of the Hope Japan Institute. His major works include “Woodrow Wilson: The Great Devil Who Bring Misfortune to the World” (PHP Shinsho), “Verifying the Modern History of the Prosecutor’s Office” (Kobunsha Shinsho), “A Modern History of Japan and the United States Full of Lies” and other “Full of Lies” series, “Kunimamori for 13-Year-Olds” (all Fusosha Shinsho), “The Great Mistake of the Pacific War” (KK Bestsellers), “Farewell, Idiots: Deciphering the Truth about Japan Through Propaganda”, “A World History of Heroes to Share with Young People”, “Archives of Nationwide Salvation”, and “On the Imperial Family” (all published by Wani Books). He is currently actively engaged in public speaking activities through his blog “Kurayama Mitsuru’s Fortress” and content distribution services “Kurayama Juku” and “Channel Kurara”.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/129409/205/129409-205-0d18b9c902d650b964390b57d79e55e7-1513×2220.jpg [Book information] “Rethinking Hideyoshi” Author: Mitsuru Kurayama Wani Books Release date: October 28, 2025 Price: ¥1,650 (tax included) ISBN: 978-4-8470-7578-0 ■Amazon
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