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Originally Posted by MMM
3) I am not Japanese, so I cannot answer for a Japanese person whether I am happy or not, but finding a balance between the West and the East, between tradition and modern has been one of the traits the Japanese have excelled at for decades. I have never heard a complaint about this specific topic from a Japanese person before.
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I heard that in Meji Era there are three ways of cultural policy set out for discussion:
1. Progressive: Arinori Mori is the first Minister of Education. He recommended a lot of policies to remove many traditional standard that he think is obsolete. He even recommended to use English instead of Japanese.
2. Conservative: N. Motoda opposed strongly the Westernization.
3. Neutralize: Yukichi Fukuzawa.
I don't know which group recommended the use of Western Calendar for traditional festivals.
I don't know what was the
argument between groups about this topic. Is their any historic document? I don't think 100 years is a long time enought to delete the historic proves of this.
I want to know what
Japanese people at that time thought when they have to convert to Western Calendar.
I really want to study about this topic and more about Japanese history.
@kyo_9: Thanks for your encouragement!