Japan it's a gerontocracy (old far goverment/ruling) and it hates innovation and standing out for yourself. They are highly anti-indivualistic. Not socialistic,

Japan it's a gerontocracy (old far goverment/ruling) and it hates innovation and standing out for yourself. They are highly anti-indivualistic. Not socialistic, not even that. They put age and supposed "wisdom" over anything else. Telling someone higher in the hier about how what he is doing it's utter crap it's taboo in Eastern Asian cultures, they are "losing face" in public. They have a medieval mindset in a capitalist society. And both concepts 'ruling' together are doomed to fail spectacularly. It's like mixing an alkaline with an acid. If anything, science and technology 'hates' tradition. They seek correctness and it doesn't seek purity in a past which never was in first place.