Japan Craft Culture And Japan Modernization

Japan is a country in the East to take the lead in realizing modernization, thedevelopment process being intertwined with the fierce collision and conflict whichcome from the heterogeneity of Western and the traditional culture itself. However,keeping the tradition of local civilization with enthusiastic, absorbing foreign ones withits broad-minded, the Japanese have always making their own culture and foreignperfectly to maintain a balance, thereby created a modern system of civilization with itsnational characteristics.Based on the craft culture—the very important component of traditional culturaland the pattern with the most national characteristics and geographic features, the articleaimed at exploring the reasons for its existence and promotion, depending on the trueevidences, the true issues, and the genuine examples, analyzing and straitening out thegenealogy historical context and reality of its survival, development and change. Thus,the two center themes discussed appear:The first one, in many countries and regions where modernization comes late, thereis a public agreement that modrnm development almost meaning the sacrifice oftraditional culture. And so many traditional craft culture has been turning into theaesthetic collection in museum, the legacy as "the past" and "history". But in Japan, thecraft culture has existed by the way which is called "activity subsistence", so what is thesocial basis of the activity exists and develops?The second, coming from the tradition, facing the construction of modernization,highly developed industrial production, Technology, the business environment, how hascraft culture realized the modern transformation in its role and function by a new way asa Culture that combined with national spirit and aesthetic purport, heavily related to thepeople's material and spiritual lives, and how has it" been living" in the socialproduction and modern life, been playing a role in material and spiritual life of modernpeople as a special cultural resource of" Production" and "Sustainable".Through the systemic exploration and deeply anatomy, this thesis recognizes:Such existent elements and functional transfers not only because of culturalcharacter and country character and nationality but also effective grasp of socialtransformation and history opportunity.Many propulsions come from law systems andcultural elites and administrative actions become main reasons.It can be a inspiration andreference for nowadays nationality which be in later modernizing under economic globalizition and culture assimilation conditions.