How modern Japan became status quo? They hardly protected its independence around middle 19th century, and only 50 years later, they got a position and reputation as one of the great power countries in the world. After hard defeated at WW2, they came back the top stage of the world economics only 30 years efforts. This “success” story very attracts people who has been interested in the way of development, sometimes it ties with the curiosity of Japanese culture.
It would be hard to answer the question “What’s Japan?”, not only Japanese but also others. We should have opportunities to ruminate the past, the present, and the future of “Japan”.
This lecture intend to enhance each other recognition and answers with a crow's nest view from various area all over the globe.