People think that they can clear up profound matters if they consider them deeply, but they exercise perverse thoughts and come to no good because they do their reflecting with only self-interest at the center” (Yamamoto, 1). This even …show more content…
“Emperor Hirohito could never bring himself to abdicate. Nor could be adjust easily to the spirit of the new peace constitution which, although it stripped him of all of his political powers, had been largely established for his benefit” (Bix, Large, 210). When emperor Hirohito did not have his political power, this destroy the divinity of the emperor that Japanese always believe in. the ancient cultural foundation of Japan about emperor. Also, later in Japan, samurais don’t exist anymore due to the overpower of the samurai, and they believe that in order to modernize Japan. Overall, Japan and China all have their own ideas and methods for their longevity. China has Confucius’s ideas and legalism, but Japan has the relationship between emperor and samurai, and Tokugawa system. In the modern era, China has similar culture orientations informing and shaping their modernity, but Japan has abandoned their ancient cultural foundations in the modern