And now, the real problem with Japan--as it has been ever since the ruthless and totally unwarranted Invasion of Japan by Commodore Perry in 1853--is the Restoration of Japanese Moral Autonomy.

because that's really what Japan lost under the Meiji Restoration--and has been losing under the U.S. occupation of Japan after World War II.  Losing now especially with the U.S. refusal to grant freedom to okinawa, but in many cultural and societal norms as well.  The adoption of Western dress by the Japanese has been particularly foolish of them, degrading and unnecessary, and is now, among Japanese Millennials, undergoing a well-deserved reaction, very distinctive, nationalistic and fantastically inventive (Most young Japanese men, as I write, now use a full panoply of cosmetics).  Which reflects and does stylistic justice to the Shintoist/Buddhist Atheism which has but lately (once again) become the predominate philosophy of Japanese citizens, and which opens up in my view the long-awaited restoration of the pragmatic ethos and estheticism of the Edo Period.  Let us hope.