>>5129928>Benefited by losing their thousand year traditionsWhen?
>Kill yourself,they should have never opened the gates to the shitty jewish west,especially JEW AMERICACan't argue with that, but they really didn't have a choice. Shortly after they conquered their Island for the Caucaziod Ainu people, Kukai made his "Journey to the West" and brought back Zen Buddism. This caused the ruling class to take up art to the exclusion of all else, leaving the power vacuum filled by the Samurai which would break down into civil war, because it was just a stop gap. A civil war fueled by superior Western weapons. The winner Tokugawa, like you said, closed the country to stop things like the weapons we'd pumped into their conflict. Until we forced them to open the country. This prompted a civil war in Japan, and the winners discided that the only way to survive was to westernize and start trying to colonize. Which put them into conflict with Russia, which brought them into allice with Britain, which sucked them into WWI. After WWI they were unwilling to give up their Western-style imperialism, which put them increasingly into conflict with a West that had given it up. And that brought the alliance with Hitler, WWII, the bombs, and the rebuilding of their country by the US. Which caused an even more massive revitalization then when we did the first time.
There has never been a time when Japan and its culture weren't in direct contact with the West and Western ideas. You attack that, you attack what it means to be Japanese.
