The following is the continuation of the previous chapter.
It is surely, Japan received various influences from China in thought and mental aspects. But Japan is never like thought - a mental slave, a follower in China.
Rather, Japan denied always Chinese one, cutting off it.
On it, it completed Japanese one.
As for therefore, the civilization - the culture of Japan in now exist.
Why it is possible to be confronted with China in the future if the Japanese don't do the checkout of the mind neatly in such a sense?
The reigning Emperor does abdication and the new emperor is acceded to.
Of Meiji - Taishou - Shouwa - Heisei...... then, all imperial era name were adopted from the classic in China.
I want you to adopt a new imperial era name this time from the classic in Japan.
"Kojiki" "Nihon Shoki" "Manyoshu" ... there are many things.
‘Kojiki’ "Nihon Shoki" "The Manyoshu"...... It will be variously.
If the biggest national crisis in Shouwa is loss, the national crisis in the times after Heisei is ‘the menace from China’.
In such a sense, let's stop adoption from the Chinese classic in the pride about His Majesty the Emperor, imperial era name in the new times.
It is polluted by ‘the Han mind’ if saying like Motoori Norinaga when adopting from the classic in China.
Because it is these times, let's show independence will and spirit in imperial era name..
This draft continues.