俺:As you know, I spent my childhood in Showa era. I believe there was a backdrop which is uncanny and, almost foreboding Japan’s decay even in the midst of economic prosperity. The most famous Manga writer Osamu Tezuka depicts the Zeitgeist especially in his artwork “Phoenix”. The author of Doraemon is alike. As Ryuzo Uchida, professor of Tokyo University is pointing out, Showa era people were bound to feeling of guilty or indebted to the unredeemed dead in the WW2 and Emperor Showa, who enshrines them instead of himself. Contrary to Showa, we are now never bound to any kind of morality at the cost of economic prosperity. I’d like to say the sense of guilty united Japanese people and drove them to economic prosperity.ジョンさん:Highly interesting. Is it a commonly held theory? Japanese were working so hard to recover from the war in honor of the sacred war dead? Were they ashamed to have survived while a million or more died? 俺:Thanks. But this theory is not held commonly. I just assembled ...