Jon Woronoff, however, believes that the modern Japanese do not have, as yet, the right mental attitude to assess properly what their past problems have been and how they still obtrude upon the future.

if he conceive the ambition of creating beauties for the admiration of others, he must be cautious to employ only such objects as are the natural signs and inseparable concomitants of emotions, of which the greater part of mankind are susceptible; and his taste will then deserve to be called bad and false, if he obtrude upon the public, as beautiful, objects that are not likely to be associated in common minds with any interesting impressions (pp.