Glad I’m not the only one who thought this. There are definitely big differences, but in some surprising ways, Japan always struck me as being like the England of the east.
I always think it kind of is! Island culture with antagonistic relationship with the mainlanders. Weird tea-based rituals. Imperialism. Longbows. Northerners considered hairy savages.
A lot of that is because in an attempt to rapidly modernise and prevent itself from being colonised, Japan imported a ton of ideas from all over Europe, including imperialism.
Glad I’m not the only one who thought this. There are definitely big differences, but in some surprising ways, Japan always struck me as being like the England of the east.
I always think it kind of is! Island culture with antagonistic relationship with the mainlanders. Weird tea-based rituals. Imperialism. Longbows. Northerners considered hairy savages.
A lot of that is because in an attempt to rapidly modernise and prevent itself from being colonised, Japan imported a ton of ideas from all over Europe, including imperialism.