Obviously you've never been to Japan. It's concrete, concrete, concrete, concrete. And industries. Mcdonalds, and more and more western food. They even start to eat western breakfast, and italian food is more and more popular in Japan. In order to find tradition in japan, you have to go to a shrine. Otherwise there is none. And no, obviously, eating sushi while listening to pop music, dressed like westerners, is not "tradition". Your little tradition, you so cherish, only exist in your head. The more it disappear, the more you fantasize about it. What wise and smart men would do, would be to create a new tradition, a new culture, that suits their interests. Not rely on old stuff that has already lived and died.