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Quote #10
"The Christianity you brought to Japan has changed it forms and has become a strange thing [...]."
"Japan is that kind of country; it can't be helped." (10.55)
This sentiment embodies the relationship between Japan and the West. While Japan and Europe show a great deal of interest in the other's cultures, neither is fully able to understand the other. Instead, each side borrows aspects of the other and reforms them in its own image, creating something new in the process.