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Now this airhead @tavleen_singh expertise extends to Japan as well. Will undergo a fainting spell if she knew the views of many of the Meiji elite's views of Xtianity & the policies they enacted to control it. In the proud company of ladyboy & sepoy
Aunty @tavleen_singh I am guessing this isn't what u had in mind?
Meiji restoration wasn't about "homo/lgbt rights" & mindless aping of the West for the sake of it lyk ur kind want
Meiji restoration wasn't about "homo/lgbt rights" & mindless aping of the West for the sake of it lyk ur kind want
If the people's values were were guided by "muh lyf, muh rulz" instead of "duty, honor, family, loyalty the Emperor, thrift, hard work", it would have never succeeded @tavleen_singh
The man (Shinji Sogo) who made the Shinkansen possible was also such an old fashioned Meiji man, shamed into coming back at 71 after suffering a debilitating stroke by appealing to his LOYALTY to his old company (Japan national railways) @tavleen_singh
Another Meiji man @tavleen_singh who said:
"All I can say is that I was brought up as a Japanese, educated as a Japanese and the way I manage my company is typically Japanese"
Didn't fire a single employee from Idemitsu even after Pacific war disaster
"All I can say is that I was brought up as a Japanese, educated as a Japanese and the way I manage my company is typically Japanese"
Didn't fire a single employee from Idemitsu even after Pacific war disaster
Funny how people who blanch at the very thought of monarchy (here not just monarchy but of the Emperor as a living kami) talk of emulating the Meiji restoration:
By utilizing a seemingly conservative doctrine, that of the emperor’s divinity
amerika.org/politics/relig…
By utilizing a seemingly conservative doctrine, that of the emperor’s divinity
amerika.org/politics/relig…
The doctrine of the emperor’s divinity, his status as a “living kami,” was crucial to the expeditious creation of a strong, centralized government that could replace the shogunate and establish an effective modern economy
Whereas the West initiated modernization with a rejection of the highest religious and political authorities, not excluding regicide, and tended to equate modernization with secularization, Japan undertook modernization under the authority of its supreme religio-political authori
