日本是一个东方国家,具有东方文化的历史传统,但自1868年明治维新以来,又受到西方文化的猛烈冲击。在近百年来实现现代化的过程中,日本人始终面临着一个如何处理民族传统文化和西方外来文化的关系问题。面对这个问题,人们大致可以有三种选择:一是完全保存民族传统文化,坚决抵制西方外来文化。 As an oriental country, Japan has a historical tradition of oriental culture. However, since the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan has been severely hit by Western culture. In the course of nearly a century of modernization, the Japanese have always faced a problem of how to deal with the relationship between traditional ethnic cultures and foreign cultures in the West. Faced with this issue, people can generally have three options: First, to completely preserve the traditional national culture, resolutely resist the Western foreign culture.