Japan is among the most traditional cultures that still exist. If a lack of understanding exists between some Western cultures and the Japanese, the cause does not proceed so much from a difference of race as from the fact that the latter —
the Western cultures — find themselves outside of Tradition, that is, they are the product of a ‘profane’ and anti-traditional spirit,
a situation which puts them in opposition not only to Eastern cultures, but also to every normal and higher culture of our own Western past.
~ Julius Evola
