This does happen pretty often in sources, westerners in Japan after Meiji restoration often noted how many former samurai works in various places (usually wersternised ones) and how everything looks like in military and how everyone is polite and works their assess off without complaining, all must be because the samurai spirit.
Love the China memes and all, but how often do you meet someone who has anything to say about Japanese modernization?
when i was gen-z’s age, that’s ALL anyone ever talked about – americans were really terrified that japan would overtake the united states.
In the early 00s I remember there being a whole lot of propaganda centering about how futuristic Japan is with their technology and robots and shit.
So 25 years ago before the Internet really took off. Okay Grandpa, bed time.
You think the internet is going to really take off a couple years from now?
Nah there is a lot of tropes and a common conception of japanese people been techie, using robots, bullet train and so on.
It depends on the circles you run in. I’m getting my history degree at an American university and tbh it’s often
I do believe your sentiment and I am sorry if this sounds snarky, but I am also genuinely curious: do they ever invoke “The Samurai Spirit”?
This does happen pretty often in sources, westerners in Japan after Meiji restoration often noted how many former samurai works in various places (usually wersternised ones) and how everything looks like in military and how everyone is polite and works their assess off without complaining, all must be because the samurai spirit.
Thank you!
China is where Japan was in the 80s
A financial bubble about to pop?
No awesome pop music
That’s Korea.
Why no awesome music?