As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.
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Of course I would not presume to rank myself with the poetic genius Yeats. I am merely a humble follower living in a country far removed from his.
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My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.
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Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.
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On the other hand, the culture of modern Japan, which implied being thoroughly open to the West or at least that impeded understanding by the West.
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What was more, Japan was driven into isolation from other Asian countries, not only politically but also socially and culturally.
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