To accomplish this, they infiltrated Japan's class of elite warriors, the samurai. In the midst of the long ago wars between both different hengeyokai courts and between mortals and the Changing Breeds, werewolves in Japan sought to end both types of wars by strengthening their ties with mortal society. They get along well with Kitsune and Tengu, but find the Khan to be troublesome rivals and regard the Nezumi as dishonorable and unclean, if also occasionally quite useful. The Hakken are the hengeyokai's foremost warriors and protectors, often acting as the first line of defense against the dreaded Bakemono.
Most Hakken consider the Garou Nation to be little more than murderous barbarians who have spurned their place in the Emerald Mother's great plan by refusing to work with the other Changing Breeds. Any similarities pale in comparison to the vast differences between the two. Some werewolves believe the Hakken to be nothing more than an Asian branch of the Shadow Lords. Though the Hakken consider Japan to be their homeland, a substantial minority now make their homes in other nations around the Pacific-primarily in China, South Korea, and the West Coast cities of the U.S. This imbalance has wrought considerable change on their culture, making them markedly distinct from other Garou in their practices. During this time, they almost entirely lost their ranks of the lupus breed (as wolves in the islands of Japan were almost entirely killed off during this period), and today are almost entirely composed of Homid. Though distantly related to the Shadow Lords, these werewolves native to Japan were isolated from the rest of the world at least since the Edo Period along with the rest of Japanese society.
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