>>3093059Never said there was. Sometimes the tradition is already perfect just the way it is and to move away from it is not progress but decay. It is a problem in this specific scenario where change is objectively necessary however. At the time, Meiji's massive reforms were so controversial that they started a civil war (the Boshin War) and while all people are given to nostalgia about the good old days I don't think anyone will seriously argue that holding on to feudalism and the class system was a better idea. (China tried and they got themselves a whole Century of Humiliation for it where they got reamed by pretty much everybody)
>>3093074Japanese are fully aware that they have a problem but it's absolutely taboo to say so. They need a Trump-like figure who can get away with saying out loud what the common everyday man is thinking to act as their voice, allowing them to speak up without fear of being ostracized.
