Rome vs Japan

[~Praetoria~]

yes, tarbicus said everything very well, and Marc, you underestimate the Romans, obviously the Romans knew how to fight because their empire stretched from Britain, through lots of Europe, the Middle East and the medditeranian coast of africa, you never saw a Japanese empire that big, the Japanese were too focused on killing each other, and from what I found out the Segoku Period which has many famous warriors from Japan was in the 1500's so it took them a lot longer to become skilled enough to kill each other. also as Tarbicus said, the katana's quality in mass production would decrease therefore not being able to do anything against the Roman shield, as for their archers, ever heard of the testudo? and the Samurai's leather armor would be a lot less resistant to the Legionary's lorica segmentata, basically a flexible platemail, and then there's the other issue, Roman legions were of massive numbers. then there's also the matter of the Scorpio Ballista and such.