Japanese people are eager to learn Han and Tang culture. Even today, the imprint of China culture can be seen everywhere in Japan. The most direct embodiment is the ancient buildings in China and the Japanese characters. More importantly, some excellent parts of China culture have also been passed down by the Japanese. Although it has accepted and passed on some China traditional cultures, it has also caused the Japanese people's own essential character defects, which seems to be the contradiction between their lack of self and their beliefs.
Japanese were students of China in history, but in modern times, Japan has greatly surpassed China in industry, and even today there seems to be a certain gap. When I was still in the countryside in the 1990s, I heard adults say Toyota, Crown, Bluebird, Honda and Yamaha, but I didn't know anything about them. Probably talking about cars and motorcycles. In addition to these, I also heard about Mercedes-Benz and BMW, which shows the status of Japanese cars at that time.
China just started in the 1990s, but the Japanese economy at its peak has come to a standstill. Today, Japan's economic growth is also quite slow, so there is a saying that it has been lost for 20 years. Although Japan's economic growth is slow, its overall strength and influence are still very strong. In terms of science and technology, Japan has not stopped developing, which shows that Japan's national strength has not been so seriously affected.
After 1990s, Japan seems to be in recession, but its development and influence in some aspects are extremely strong. In addition to cars and motorcycles, Japanese electronic and digital products dominate the world. Sony, Panasonic, Kodak, Toshiba, etc. I remember that the first MP3 was made in Japan, and some electronic simulation products made in Japan were all the rage. In the city where I worked, Japanese cars ran the most on the streets, and young people in big cities wanted to have a Japanese electronic pet.
When I was a child, I liked watching cartoons most, and the most popular was Japanese cartoons. Too many smart people, astro boy, robot cat and so on. My favorite is the slam dunk player. Japanese animation culture has influenced a generation of China people, and it is the only one in Japanese film and television culture that surpasses Hollywood. Apart from cartoons, Japanese idol dramas were the first to be popular in Asia. Relatively speaking, their influence is much wider and greater. Cartoons are for children after all.
Even in the 1990s, when the overall economy was in recession, Japan's influence was everywhere, and its culture and industry remained formidable. During this period, in addition to the strong film and television culture, a number of writers who influenced the world emerged in Japan, which shows that the spiritual life of Japanese society is still extremely active. Japan still maintains an all-round leading position in Asia, and its influence on China is all-round and enormous, even for rural youth like me who have little schooling.
In the lost 20 years, the Japanese are still influencing us everywhere, which is also the most comprehensive and rapid social development in China. In these twenty years, Japanese elements can be seen everywhere in our lives, and they still exist in our lives today, but some things are very small. Although Japanese cars can still be seen in the streets, the proportion has been greatly reduced. Japanese film and television literature has become a non-mainstream culture, and the most visible thing is probably Japanese restaurants.
Almost overnight, the once powerful Japanese elements almost disappeared, and behind this, in addition to Japan's own reasons, more is our own growth. In addition to economic and industrial development, our comprehensive strength is also growing. Maybe Japan is not in recession at this time, but we are developing too fast and too strong. Japan was able to spread to Asia, but it was only a primary school student in China earlier, so everything just returned to its original state.
Japanese industrial products are becoming less and less common. Electronic digital products, once all the rage in China, have long lost their former glory, and the influence of automobile, shipbuilding, steel and other industries is getting smaller and smaller. As for popular culture, it has become non-mainstream. There are few Japanese film and television dramas, and literary works have little influence on modern young people. Movies that once influenced Hollywood are now just some love education films. Most of the Japanese stars who are popular in Asia are replaced by some female stars who don't recognize people. I wonder if the Japanese will feel sad!
There are still some powerful places in Japanese pop culture. For example, in the field of animation, it is also a world power. Animation is nothing more than fantasy and painting, and the Japanese can only conquer the world by imagination. Many times Japanese animation products can be influenced by western factors, especially most of the characters have western faces. In history, the Japanese teacher was China, and later they became faithful believers in the western world, which shows that the Japanese have never established a truly powerful self.
Japan is an island country, which is doomed to its congenital deficiency and it is difficult to form a huge influence and pattern. Japan is also a disaster-ridden place, so it is impossible to live comfortably, so the Japanese are doomed to be the carrier of contradictions from the beginning, which cannot be overcome and balanced. And the decline of Japan is inevitable. The lost twenty years have little impact on Japan, because now is the countdown to its real decline!