Pre-war education in Japan

I am almost finishing the last chapter of "Dogs and Demons, the falling of modern Japan". I can feel that why some of my Japanese friends commented this book overly sentimental and melodramatic. Alex Kerr was born and raised in Japan, however, I do not agree that many of his points in his book, of course, this only came clear to me after 3 years coming back to Asia. He is seeing Japanese society with a pair of American's eyes. There are certain rules of games what cannot be explained. Like if you are trying to explain why the Wall Stree is still the white man's ferternity club and why US is supporting Iserali unconditionally?

Anyhow, he is still not bullshitting too much. There is one chaper dedicating to the education system. He compared the pre-war education system to post-war, which government had started to regular the contents of teaching. He found that the Japanese culture's blooming era was funded by people from pre-war education, where no rigid control was exerted. Thus, Japanese people in their 70s or 80s today have the most sharp togue and liberal thinkings, hard to find the same qualities with younger generations.

When a society matures to a certain level, where everyone is comfortable, that's only natural that people want to preserve the way things are. At the same time, if you look at Taiwan, Hong Kong and China, that's where many unrested souls are fighting for better world. Perhaps, we can see those area step into Japan's track in a decade.