Lately in Japan, as a result of its declining influence in the international community, calls are mounting for redefining and raising its national power, called "Japanability." In other words, Japanese society urgently needs to enhance its strength and remedy its weakness.
To begin with, let's examine the aspects of its strength.
First, in Japanese society, people share the spirit of self-help and mutual assistance. This was evidently manifest in the self-composed responses shown by people in the Tohoku region in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
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