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According to the secondary literature of the past decades, many features of Meiji Japan (1868-1912) that were regarded “traditionally Japanese” have been proven to be “invented traditions” of an era of building a modern nation and national consciousness as a part of modernization. Creating a nation state with strong nationalism followed the European developmental pattern, but was built on Japanese...
Several scholarly works on Japan explain the specific phenomena of the 19th century Japanese modernization in terms of Japanese tradition and culture. Against this, another trend (based on mainly postmodern theory) denies the validity of these explanations, citing the theory of “invented tradition”. This paper tries to add some thoughts to this debate, examining the concept of tradition in Japanese...
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