For we are all, one with another, wise and foolish, like a ring that has no end. Therefore, let us on the contrary dread our own faults, and though we alone may be in the right, let us follow the multitude and act like them. But it certainly is postmodern. Too many Americans still believe that their channel is the only channel. Whereas it was clear that Bush, or at least those Republicans most vocally present, were certain that God is on their side, and is otherwise a good modern American.
Japan has no such hangups.
Or, at the very least, I would say that Amaterasu and company is not Yaweh and sons.