Theshogun didn't want to agree to this,but hit advisore went behind his back and made a deal with the Americans They felt theyhad no choice The foreigners had much better guns and cannons, and the samurai had been livinng in peace for so long that they weren't ready to fight such a powerful foe The shogun resigned soon afterwards and a government made up of ambitious politicians replaced the old military bakufu They put a new emperor on the throne, giving him a bigger role in running the country than an emperor had for hundreds of years The government also made it illegal for anyone who wasn't in the army to carry arms Without wars to fight and swords at their sides'samurai warriors effectively ceased to exist
but the samurai spirit didn't die out entirely During the second World War some Japanese pilots went on suicide missions,dive-bombing enemy ship They became know as kamikaze pilots,after the winds that had saved Japan from the Mongol invaders all those years ago These pilots still believed in the samurai ideal that the way of the warrior lies in death