Its incredibly retarded, im about 15 minutes in and hes using a comparison with Britain as the jumping off point for the entire discussion. Rudy seems autistically obsessed with comparisons to the point he loses the plot entirely, studying a culture takes actually reading and studying their story as told from themselves. No mention of Confucianism, or religion/philosophy, the actual origin of the culture, just sweeping summaries of Japanese historical periods and comparisons to other countries half-way across the world. He doesn't even cite any books on Japan written by Japanese people.