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Samurai warriors crossed the Kanmon Straits in southern Japan in the year 1185, the last time that the narrow channel was crossed in documented Japanese history by solo individuals.
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In the Year 1185, a famous battle was fought in Kanmon Straits, a narrow waterway that separates the main island of Honshu with the southern island of Kyushu in Japan. Two major samurai clans battled fiercely across the 700m strait with their warriors entering the water. The Japanese samurai practiced suijutsu (水術 in Japanese), the
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