Is Japan an intellectual country ?

[caster51]

I think there is no country that absorbed various　different　culture like
the Japan
Moreover, it is transformed in Japan style and accepted though I do not know whether it is intellectual or not.

The civilization flows one-sidedly from a Chinese continent at that time , was miniaturized and complicated in the island, too.

Hiragana and katakana were made when Imperial_embassies_to_China was abolished ..

the Japanese accepted a lot of intellectual civilizations and culture and that was imitated, and the unique culture was invented.

I might say it is a second creation as intellectual
I think The Japanese gives priority to the profit of the group when profit or
individual profit of the community is selected by the alternative.

It is because it is supported by the conviction that the community is prosperous and , my profit becomes the maximum, too.

1)You also must participate as a member of the community.
2)There must be a mechanism that the profit is reduced form.
3)There must be reliability about distribution.
This is consolidated in "Thought of symbiosis".
Japan at that time was a multiethnic nation( wa-jin, han , korean , emishi ainu...)

The feature of the Japanese culture seems to exist for a part of the cause
in the diversity of this race.
fortunately, Japan was called a drift of deffernce cultures because of island
it was easy to enter and difficult to get out..
so , it was like terminal station that various cultures come..
and Japan has not like Sinocentrism..
it is very flexible...

for example..
a french man said "the culture and literature for French
were already completed"
http://www.mfjtokyo.or.jp/event/00103/detail.html
Japan will be able to make New one moreover, too...

The Japanese is good at the self control I think.
First of all, it thinks about harmony with another before it insists on the
self.
I think there are neither excessive individualism nor liberalism in Japan.
Perhaps, the expected new civilization is a civilization that puts a curb upon
one's desires.

The paradox of freedom doesn't occur easily in the culture of Japan.
I think It suits a new civilization most.

I think An intellectual country selects the best method and the means ,and The entire people can participate with common consideration toward goal .
Japan is culturally hiding the potential more than other country

I think regrettable Japan is rushing into the society where the rich and poor exists for global standerd. so are crime...............

[gaijinalways]

caster51 posted

The feature of the Japanese culture seems to exist for a part of the cause
in the diversity of this race.
fortunately, Japan was called a drift of deffernce cultures because of island
it was easy to enter and difficult to get out..so , it was like terminal station that various cultures come..
and Japan has not like Sinocentrism..
it is very flexible...

No, it was quite the opposite, and hence somewhat isolated for 400 years.

As to flexibility, you must be kidding. Why do you think things change so slowly here, because the population is flexible?

caster 51 posted

I think An intellectual country selects the best method and the means ,and The entire people can participate with common consideration toward goal .
Japan is culturally hiding the potential more than other country

I think regrettable Japan is rushing into the society where the rich and poor exists for global standerd. so are crime...............

Yes, I think it may continue to be hidden .

Some of the crimes come from being 'flexible' about money and space, yes?

And of course the crimes show 'self control'!

[caster51]

As to flexibility, you must be kidding. Why do you think things change so slowly here, because the population is flexible?

thing?

Some of the crimes come from being 'flexible' about money and space, yes?

It might be basically an education and qualitative difference of living...

[gaijinalways]

thing= in this case is referring to behaviour. That and changing the way something is done, even when it is obviously an inefficient way of doing it.

[caster51]

thing= in this case is referring to behaviour. That and changing the way something is done, even when it is obviously an inefficient way of doing it.

it is so funny.
there are many things that are obviously an inefficient way.
iI mean ideology and culturely 'flexible"
I dont mean system and rule .