The Battle of Sekigahara — The Day Japan Was Decided

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The Battle of Sekigahara — The Day Japan Was Decided

For more than a century, Japan had been tearing itself apart.
Clans rose.
Clans vanished.
Loyalty shifted overnight.

The Sengoku period turned the country into a permanent battlefield, where warlords fought endlessly for land, power, and survival. There was no center. No lasting authority. Only shifting alliances and constant bloodshed.
Then, in 1600, everything converged in a single valley.
Sekigahara.
More than 160,000 samurai gathered in the fog to decide something greater than a victory.
They gathered to decide who would own the future of Japan.

This documentary explores the Battle of Sekigahara — the most decisive samurai battle in Japanese history and the moment that ended a century of civil war. From the power vacuum left by Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s death to the secret negotiations and betrayals that shaped the battlefield, from the clash of massive armies to the sudden reversals that shattered one side from within, this film traces how one day of combat forged a political order that would rule Japan for over 250 years.

Inside this story:
– The chaos of the Sengoku era
– The fall of central authority and the rise of warlords
– The rival coalitions that divided Japan
– The armies and commanders of Sekigahara
– The battle in the fog-filled valley
– The betrayals that decided the outcome
– Tokugawa Ieyasu’s victory
– And the birth of the Tokugawa shogunate

Sekigahara did not simply end a war.
It selected Japan’s future.
From that valley emerged a new political order, a controlled samurai class, and a nation that would soon close itself to the outside world. The age of wandering warlords ended. The age of centralized rule began.

On Fragments of History, we explore the moments when history stops drifting… and is forced into a direction.
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