闘魂 hits immediately: most Japanese speakers will connect it to Antonio Inoki before anything else. The phrase 燃える闘魂 (moeru tōkon — Burning Fighting Spirit) was Inoki's signature, and it defined his public image from his wrestling peak in the 1970s until his death in 2022. Inoki was not just a wrestler — he was a cultural figure, a politician, and a symbol of a particular kind of Japanese masculine energy. ...