An empire that has existed for more than a thousand years, an island state that has become a world leader, one of the most "closed" civilizations. All this is Japan.
Japan - Russia: Spiritual Similarity
At first glance, the absurd assertion that many features of the eastern mentality of the Japanese are related to the Russian mentality are quite convincing examples. For example, hard work and obedience, faith in a good king, the habit of spiritual slavery. On the other hand, Alexander Blok and Sergei Yesenin emphasized how much Asian savagery and unpredictability are in Russian people. And Japan is, in fact, Southeast Asia. And the fact that states are separated by hundreds and thousands of kilometers does not really matter. The sea from Russia to Japan is a stone's throw. And the dispute about the Kuril Islands cannot be considered over. And a peace treaty between these countries is just a dream …
Japan in the past
A centuries-old history, in which, as it should be, a lot: bloody strife, turmoil, gaining independence, rapid cultural growth, attempts at European expansion. But the main thing is unshakable loyalty to one's nature, rituals, customs, traditions. In fact, Japan emerges from isolation only by the middle of the 19th century - quite late by historical standards.
Of course, it is impossible to close our eyes and throw out of history the militaristic foreign policy of the Japanese emperors at the beginning of the twentieth century, when both China and Russia fell under the "distribution". The culmination of Japanese militancy was the country's entry into World War II as an ally of the already defeated Germany. The military successes of the Red Army and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by American aviation forced the Japanese to surrender. The desperate exploits of the kamikaze pilots did not help either.
Japan's future
The Japanese were able to learn a proper lesson from the Second World War. The country was not only demilitarized - it itself decided to move to a position of pacifism and abandon the regular army. Perhaps it was this wise policy that made it possible to make an economic breakthrough and make the whole world talk about the "Japanese miracle".
Today, not possessing any significant reserves of minerals, Japan has chosen to rely on the development of high technologies. And she was right. Real Japanese products - TVs, players, laptops - are always worth their weight in gold. The Japanese are confident about the future. They live long and rarely get sick. It is Japan that is capable of seriously competing with the United States in its claims to world leadership.
