Answer:
Attitudes toward Western culture in Japan before 1940 were complex and often contradictory.
Explanation:
For one, the Japanese admired many of the economic aspects of Western culture, and this is why they decided to imitate, to a large degree, the economic system of that had developed in the west: industrial capitalism.
In more social and cultural aspects, the Japanese had a more complex attitude. They distrusted many of the aspects of western culture in this sense, mainly individualism and democracy, and this is why they stuck to a more collective culture ruled under a military dictatorship until the end of World War II when democracy was imposed upon them by the United States, the victor of the war.
