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Jan 6, 2019 at 15:43 comment added Greg This answer seems pretty opinion based and the factual part is based on a Youtube video... You, for example, forget that the Japanese actually widely use western utensils (mostly for Western food).
Aug 17, 2017 at 18:01 comment added T.E.D. Please dig up a link to that video and link it in this answer (I'm asking as a big fan of the video, and an upvoter). However, I think most of the modernization was their own initiative. Commodore Perry just showed them why they needed to (in the Americans' endearingly blunt way). Westerners would have been quite content if they'd remained easy pickings, like China did.
Aug 17, 2017 at 13:53 comment added Astor Florida There was a ton of westernization in Japan prior to WWII. They modernized the entire nation along western lines.
Aug 17, 2017 at 13:03 comment added Jeff yes, japan has readily adopted foreign words and technology and other things. food might be something they were less willing to change and obviously chopsticks worked fine for their traditional foods.
Aug 17, 2017 at 10:46 comment added Denis de Bernardy Western-style clothing such as suits and ties weren't useful to them either, yet the Japanese adopted those regardless.
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Aug 17, 2017 at 9:42 history answered Mwak CC BY-SA 3.0