Cibele Rocha

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"Japan, perhaps alone among nations, has until now been able to find a balance between fidelity to the past and the transformations brought about by science and technology. No doubt it is primarily beholden in this respect to the fact that it was ushered into modern times by a restoration and not by a revolution. Its traditional values were thus protected from collapse. [...] Even today, the foreign visitor admires the eagerness that everyone in Japan displays to perform his duty, the cheerful good will that, compared to the social and moral climate of his home country, seem to the traveler key virtues of the Japanese people. May they long maintain that precious balance between the traditions of the past and the innovations of the present, and not only for their own good, since humanity as a whole finds in them an example worth contemplating." Claude Lévi-Strauss

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