After the war, Japan lost their symbol, their literal God Emperor, Hirohito, who was forced to say to the world he was not a descendant of the goddess Amaterasu. As in the west with the separation of church and state, it created a spiritual vacuum that (((globalization))) soon filled with consumerism. There were many US military bases in Japan (and still are), so the population was exposed very quickly to the west's way of life by the G.I.s living there, and I guess it was better to them than clinging to the ideology and culture that destroyed 2 cities in atomic fire. To the Japanese's credit, they created one of the world's biggest economy and, while it crashed in the 90s, is still going strong today, but they are riddled with societal problems not unlike our owns, lack of community engagement and socialization in favor of working insane hours and consumerism leading to rampant depression and suicides. They are an aimless people, declawed and neutered by the global cabal, relegated to produce like ants in their overpopulated cities.