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Western observers were struck by how Japan displayed the qualities of both a ‘savage’ land, which was expected of the East, as well as qualities of a ‘civilised’ country

In more contemporary terms, he suggests that this explains the contradictory simultaneous presentations of tradition and technology in Japan The Techno-Orientalist image of Japan is a Japan that is technologically superior to the ‘West’, in this case Britain, but is nonetheless inferior in moral terms, having too much technology at the cost of its humanity, thus reaffirming the ‘West’, or Britain, as dominant and superior.

Journalists have been accused of perpetuating stereotypes and tropes about Japan and its culture, for displaying a lack of knowledge about the country, or even being anti-Japan

糞な英（米）メディアとそれをありがたがる出羽守。