Endure through hardships and be able to win every fight that is what they intended to do as they spent large sums of money on navy and army They would need this strong militarism and nationalism to expand further into the West Which at the time was the most important thing for the country There was an opinion among Westerners that Japan was a distant exotic culture and Japan thought of themselves as different and unreachable to foreigners Both sides saw Japan as an outsider a country that is not like any other But really they have a more homogeneous society then they think Perhaps what makes Japan seem unique is that the combinations of institutions say education religion family and so forth different from what one would expect in any particular Western European country Contemporary Japan video Japanese culture is very unique with common thought action and belief in social political and religious institutions created a unique society where many people tended to think and act alike As opposed to the American democracy with all of its differences of opinions and mixes of religions Japan is certainly a much more homogeneous society than say the United States There are relatively few linguistic differences between different parts of the country In terms of social class peoples lifestyles are quite similar