The origin of Japanese culture and, the world view as its logical conclusion.
	Hiromasa Noguti. Mail-address cotosiro@js6.so-net.ne.jp. September 13, 2003. This was renewed in March 26, 2004. Since this English edition was the unsatisfactory translation and performance, this was rewritten now. January 25, 2005. This was revised in April 5, 2008.
	The fundamental understanding to Japanese culture. Japanese culture and the brain of Japanese people.
	It can understand the culture to be the acquired method for the said people's perception if it considers culture about the brain. Or, it can say the culture is based on the acquired method for reacting to the information brought from the outside world. And, the acquired method like that regulates a brain's action with mainly a imprinting. Thereupon, from the viewpoint like that, it states the characteristic of brain, of especially Japanese people's brain at this knot. Today, it is said a human being treats the sound of non-language(the music, the noise, the voice of animal, the insects' singing, etc) with using the right hemisphere of the brain generally. And, it is said also a human being copes with the sound of language with using the left hemisphere of the brain generally. However, Dr. Tunoda discovered the interesting function of our brain when he was the professor in "the Tokyo Medical and Dental University" at about 1980 year. He says Japanese people hear the singing of insects and the sound of certain Japanese musical instrument or other with using the left hemisphere of the brain. However, it seems apparently this discovery is strange because the left hemisphere is to treat the language. Thereupon, I presumed the Japanese people to feel the meaning of something from the sounds like that if his discovery is right. In other words, it seems the Japanese people perceive the sounds like that to be the language of something whether they are aware of the thing or not. This is the very important characteristic for us. It is because it seems it is the fundamental element of the Japanese culture and of the way of our perception. If someone felt that something uttered the words, at least the human being thinks something like that has the consciousness. And, in ordinary case, the existence like that is the human being. However, if Dr. Tunoda's opinion is proper, it seems at least Japanese people are in the mental environment different from the ordinary case a little. In other words, it seems Japanese people feel there is the unknown spiritual existence different from the human being when it hears the insects' singing or the sound of the certain Japanese music instrument. If it explains it concretely a little more, it would be we hear the voice of the gods and goddesses or the voice of the ghost and devils and so on from the sounds like that. It is that it probably is the natural reaction for us because it isn't that the voices like that were sent from human being. If so, for at least Japanese people, it can say this world exists not only as physical area but also as the spiritual area countless spirits live in. Of course, the many of people aren't aware of the thing. It is that it feels almost unconsciously the sounds like that are the voices a spirit gives off. In spite of that, our mental characteristic like that is forming the mental footing of Japanese people. In other words, it can say Japanese people have the polytheistic characteristic and the tendency like animism fundamentally. Probably, the concept of "Coto-dama(a soul of words)" also is based on the mental footing like that. However, it doesn't mean the Japanese people have a primitive brain. Rather, it should say the ability disappearing because of civilization in other countries didn't degenerate because of the special characteristic of Japanese language. (This special characteristic is explained immediately later). Rather it should say this special ability is very valuable. It is because this ability born of the characteristic of our brain is supporting our various detailed technologies the foreign can't imitate. And, the characteristic of our brain like that was brought from Japanese language. It is that Japanese language is important so for us. If we understand the characteristic of our brain enough, it would bring to us the serious thought able to contribute to this world. However, its contents are stated later. By the way, Dr. Tunoda says the Japanese persons growing with using English for the infant period don't have the Japanesque brain like that. Conversely, the American and French persons and so on using Japanese language for the infant period have the Japanesque brain, he says. In other words, our characteristic like that is decided by the used language for the infant period. Therefore, it is that it seems the characteristic like that is culture, not inborn nature. If so, even if the various culture is adopted to Japan, if Japanese language isn't lost, it seems the characteristic of our brain never be changed. And, characteristic of brain like that is regulating our thinking. Therefore, it is that it thinks Japanesque brain is the footing of Japanese culture. If so, when would the characteristic of Japanese language like that have been created how? Or, would the Jomon language and the ancient Japanese language have the characteristic like that? As a matter of fact, it is that it could find out the serious hints about the thing from Dr. Tunoda's research. It is because Dr. Tunoda had discovered the certain peoples have the characteristic of Japanesque brain. However, it wasn't that it found out the characteristic like that from the Korean people and so on who are supposed to have the close relationship with Japanese people at blood. Enough strangely, it was found out of the Micronesian speaking in their original language. And, he assumed that the Polynesian language also makes the brain Japanesque because it has the very close form to the Micronesian language. Then, in others' research, it is said the Ainu seeming to be the descendant of the Jomon people also has the close relationship with the Polynesian hereditarily. Moreover, as it stated before, it seems the Ainu's language maintains the characteristic of the Jomon language considerably. According to recent research, it is said the Micronesian, the Polynesian, the Ainu, and so on are belonging to old type Mongoloid, aren't changing one's hereditary characteristic so until reaching this day from the older times than the glacial epoch. Therefore, it seems the Ainu's language also make the brain Japanesque if the Micronesian language makes the brain Japanesque and if the Japanese language born out of the Jomon language makes the brain Japanesque. In other words, it has to think the language in the old type Mongoloid brings the mental condition like polytheism to be laid on animism originally. Of course, it seems all communities of the mankind, when still not civilized, were keeping the world view like the animism. In other words, it seems not only the people of old type Mongoloid but also other ancient people could hear the voice Mother Nature gives off, and could talk with the gods and goddesses, that is, all of the nature probably. They, with hearing like that the voice from the nature in the intuition, must have learned the method to cope to the movement of the nature. However, many people didn't have the language able to keep the ability like that. Therefore, the people like that lost the ability like that because of the evolution of civilization soon. It is natural that the ability not used for long degenerates. However, our language can give us the special intuition if we try to hear properly the voice the nature gives off and if our subjective recognition can have the opened consistency for unknown phenomenon and spiritual existence. This ability is very precious for us. It is because the recent people, caught to the subdivided objective recognition because of the development of civilization, can't hear the original voice the phenomenon gives off. We would have to think this problem with recalling the respect for the nature. In passing, since it thinks our world view based on the ability like that includes the very excellent philosophy, it thinks to name the mental ability like that the soul of Jomon meaning the footing of Jomon culture, holding the pride. By the way, Jomon language kept on changing with absorbing the Altaic language mainly. And, soon, it came to be recognized to be the language the people called Wha uses. Today, we are recognizing it to be the ancient Japanese language. However, the basic part of the Jomon language making the Japanesque brain wasn't lost in spite of the evolution of the language. So, it seems the soul of Jomon also wasn't lost. In other words, Japanese language didn't finish becoming the Altaic language. So, the fundamental element keeping the soul of Jomon, that is, the "soul of Jomon culture" was kept through the Jomon language, the ancient Japanese language, until reaching the present language though the different culture came into the Japanese Islands since before several thousand years. And, it is in the condition kept even now.
NEXT PAGE			However, today, it seems many of Japanese people not only don't know the thing, but also don't even try to know the thing unfortunately. It seems it is very regrettable for Japanese people and also for Japan. The unconcern to one's mind and culture gives the evil influence to the social centripetal force called the culture if the condition like that continues as it is. The culture is the only force for the social unity. And, not until the community's members' egos were fused, the force like that is born. Then, the force like that, that is, culture cultivated like that make the individual fuse to the society furthermore. It can say the consistency of the individual and the society is kept by the culture like that. In spite of that, our culture is degenerating increasingly because of the above mentioned unconcern now.
	Moreover, the above mentioned unconcern isn't the temporary problem seen in only the recent Japan. As a matter of fact, it can say the unconcern like that was continuing for long times because of our certain deep-rooted habit from the ancient times. It can notice the thing at once if it sees many of Japanese people don't value one's country's art and so on so highly. And, the deep-rooted habit like that was created by the historical relationship of the Jomon culture and Yayoi culture. Especially today, since the habit like that is firm, the ignorance about one's culture is increasing among people. However, there may be the opinion saying that in spite of that, we kept on keeping one's community. Of course, it is truth. However, it can't assert it is because our problem was solved. If it considers the aspect of the present world, it can't assert our problem doesn't burst. It is that the problem we inherit really is the present problem.
Cotosiro