Talk:Forgemaster/@comment-2606:6000:6203:F400:E554:CF6C:7FD1:78CB-20171220233305/@comment-88.188.124.55-20180518074024

No, it is not based on Japanese culture; for all we know, they have cultural elements from Modern Japan, including business suits and Nihontô. It is unlikely that they also have the more refined parts of Japanese culture, such as customs, notions and behaviours from finer epochs (just so you know, Japan is the only civilization to date who ever had simultaneously a medieval and classical culture). For all we know, the Cherry Blossom Shrine in Nazarick is the only Shintoist holy site in the New World, for example, and PDL doesn't seem to be revered on a religious basis like he would be in China, Japan, Vietnam and India; he is only keeping a hoard western style.