"From social mores, to art and culture, everything is two-dimensional," writes the anime artist Takashi Murakami of his seething, uneasy nation. "[Japan is] a place for people unable to comprehend the moral coordinates of right and wrong as anything other than a rebus for 'I feel good.' Those who inhabit this vacant crucible spin in endless, inarticulate circles."
For a legalistic society like Japan, it's a shocking concept to think that they really have no concrete sense of right and wrong, but their culture really offers no basis for true morals. The Japanese "moral" system defines what is socially acceptable, but offers no instruction for anything outside of the rigid social structures that have defined Japan for centuries. The Japanese people, especially the younger generations, are realizing that the traditions that have been passed down from generation to generation offer nothing for them. They are now in search of something new, but finding nothing. They need something, someone, they can turn to that will give them hope.
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