Postmodern style is disconnected from the coherent structure offered by tradition. Post-modern man exists without a center or a transcendent meaning. Kato - That is completely true. That's why I am against the imported post-modernism in Japan. I consider it very superficial.
Postmodernism is a reaction against the rational system of Western modernity.
It is a form of confrontation with the past. But the past doesn't exist in the same way in Japan as in the West. And without a confrontation with the past, postmodernism is a rather hollow revolt. The confrontation between past and future involves changing an abstract conception of reality and ethical codes to conform with the new realities of the concrete situation. In the absence of such abstraction, there is no change in principle, only continuous adaptation without confrontation.