It cant be ancient japan because there is Boat with a literal marine outboard engine hanging off the back of it???This is 1960’s or 70’s technology by japans standards considering the Americans invented the outboard in the 50’s or late 40’s Johnson & evinrude.
>>284717368it's not a real place
>>284717368They also have video tapes.There is no coherent technological level in that world building.
>>284717368It was meant to be contemporary.
>>284717368Kishi sucks at world building.
>>284717368a fictional time that doesn't abide by real-life timeline
>>284717368It's best to think of the Naruto world like Adventure Time where everything was invented a long time ago and now that stuff is rare, a novelty, incongruous with the existing culture or there just isn't supply, demand or means of manufacturing. The skyscrapers of Amegakure and abandoned cities suggest that the warring states period was a disruptive period of a technologically advanced civilization that reverted to rudimentary weapons and infrastructure.
>>284717368What does it matter?