>>49572112>That's literally how japanese people viewed western techEven during the Shogunate the Japanese (high society anyway) maintained some contact with westerners and traded in technology and science, they literally had a term for it, "rangaku" or "Dutch studies/learning." In the decades before America forced the end of Japan's isolation the policy was already becoming more lax and western knowledge was being widely distributed.
Japan wholly embraced westernization once Meiji came into power and was able to do so thanks to that foundation of knowledge both of science and political philosophy, going from feudal society to a modern industrial power in the span of 50 years would have been impossible otherwise.
anyway that other anon is right, the simplest explanation is that shit just fell out of the time portals, the handheld camera is already anachronistic nobody has modern refrigerators yet
