The Japanese seem to be recovering their historical Elitist Composure, after a century and a half of psychological intimidation...

And of course also, at the bitter end, of merciless, though perhaps not unwarranted, decimation and destruction. But that, too, is gone now. Leaving, among the several islands which constitute Japan, at least 77,000 (the smallest figure I have read) Shinto/Buddhist shrines-by-the-wayside--many of them with bed-and-breakfast facilities.