The reasons for the smooth integration of Japanese traditional culture and modern culture.

The key to the inheritance of traditional culture lies in political factors.

Japan's modernization began with the Meiji Restoration, which began with "respecting the king", that is, they overthrew the rule of the shogunate and restored the orthodoxy represented by the emperor, so they did not interrupt their political ties with traditional culture.

On the contrary, if we look at China, the modernization of China has gone through a long process since 1840, which overthrew the Manchu rule politically, but the Manchu culture has actually been assimilated by the Han culture in China, so from the very beginning, it was branded as a political interruption of culture, coupled with the later New Culture Movement and the spread of Marxism, which all impacted the traditional culture of China. As for the Cultural Revolution, traditional culture is directly on the verge of extinction.

It can be seen that politics is the key factor for the successful inheritance of traditional culture from modern culture.