>>510213120Yes, yes, I understand your pain.
You have no past to be proud of.
Before meeting the Westerners, you were still living in an endless feudal era. The Middle Ages ended for you only in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Your few scientists had to smuggle what little information they could get from the Dutch.
And then what? You industrialized and tried your hand at colonialism only to be sodomized by the Americans. It all ended so fast. Now you are buried in a mountain of debt after the bubble burst in the early 1990s and you have never really recovered from that to this day.
We Europeans can at least console ourselves with our past, but what have you? Only declining birthrates and rude tourists who take advantage of "cheap Japan" as the yen keeps devaluing against the dollar.
I would be mad too if I were you.