>>509887758Shinto in its nationalized form did not exist prior to Meiji. They literally exiled Atsutane Hirata, who was a student of the Dutch, for trying to introduce bootleg concillarism to Japan. If you look at the Nihon Shoki it's a plagiarism of the Descent of Inanna. Also Susano-o and Yamata no Orochi were copies of the Kaoskampf myth involving a thunder god who slays a sea serpent. It's part of a greater axial history myth that was being propagated by Freemasons at the time. For a time before nationalizing in Meiji they had an imperial cult styled after the Romans, and all of this was for show because they were effectively ran by an oligarchy called the genro until 1940. Modern Japan is full of immigrants now because they took on absurd public debt to pay for their cities in the 90s. They had this addiction to paper and refusal to buy anything so their market deflated. If you pay for a house with debt, then who pays for it? If you go to their factories it's full of foreigners, but when you talk to Japanese about their jobs it's always uhhh...uhhhh...sales...uhh...retail....uhhh finance. How does this even happen? How is sales the most common job yet the economy is deflationary? The only answer I have is a total welfare state and government can't find enough people to keep up the public works facade because the demand for paper money is higher than anything else in Japan.