Interesting. The rest of Asia is still seething at modern Japan’s inability to acknowledge WWII atrocities committed by Imperial Japanese forces. But in disconnecting themselves from their unsavory wartime past, today’s Japanese have also forsaken their classical roots which valued hard work, respect for elders & ancestors, and appreciation of the higher esthetics in art & literature.
`Anomie’ is the correct term for this societal malaise & lack of higher purpose in life, IIRC.
Only their geographical advantage as an island nation prevents Japan from sinking into multicultural dissolution. For example, they have almost no Muslim problem over there as muzzies are treated as the worst sort of foreigners, and are deported at the first sign of causing trouble.
Meanwhile, Japan’s birth rate is well below replacement level.
Japan is doomed as Sparta was; they will eventually be taken over not by force of arms, but by the Asian minorities they import as cheap labor while they themselves won’t breed. They’re still willing to work, but have lost jobs to the cheaper Asian mainland in the same manner as we did; they have an unemployment problem.
We have a Muslim problem in the US, but like Japan we’re disappearing because of a birthrate problem; we traffic Third Worlders here then pretend it is still the same nation as that founded in 1776. Ethnicity is not the issue; the newcomers simply have nothing in common with the WASP founders of the United States.