ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the lasting and even deepening lethargy of Japan in terms of the Credibility Trap, relating it to the country's Cultural devastation, as well as alluding to the socioeconomic and, systemic malfunctions and personal-spiritual-intellectual degeneration. Discussing the Japanese modernization, it is rather customary to refer to the great success of emulating the Western models, which culminated in the much-applauded Oriental Miracle. Being more or less forced to adapt to the modern civilization by the new central Government that imitated, only superficially, the Western model of the nation state and democratic government, the generations after the Meiji Restoration began to disregard the intrinsic Japanese spirit and gave their mind and soul to Western thoughts and knowledge. The post-war Japanese Constitution, despite being an ideal Anglo-American legal canon, may have been extremely hazardous to the vastly different national inclination, nationality or nationhood of Japan. The Constitution stresses superficially the principles of freedom, equality, private property and human rights.
