Rashomon and Japanese Politics alike?

One good characteristic of the Japanese is that they are able to get an idea out of its core and eventually make it Japanese. Japanese Politics' value system and system structure were both compromise and in both traditional and modern elements. However, it can lack internal resources to change its political system. From Takeshi Ishida's book Japanese Political Culture he divided the development of Japan into two stages.
First, The period starting from the Meiji Restoration up to the end of World War II. It was the turning point in Japanese History, when the Samurai from han ousted the Bakufu and proclaimed the restoration of power to the imperial dynasty which reigned in japan for almost thousands of years. The momentous changes were followed by the ending of the traditional Samurai monopoly of military service in 1873. After which various changes in the government were implemented as thought to be something that would make Japan a better state.And, lastly, the period when of Japan's defeat in World War II up to the present. In this period was already the rising of modern Japan.

Japanese Politics is as complicated as other politics there is. As different personnel tries to held up to power, Politics it self is already making ways for its own political interest. The simple logic I can use to understand this clearly is that, there are a lot of things that is only good only when it is at its best and is useless if it has none.

The movie Roshomon on the other hand, is a film about a wife who got raped and her husband being murdered. There were witnesses in this scene, the rapist himself, a medium and the dead man. The movie was set in a way where the viewers will think of the answer to the question--"What really happened in the story?" Why am I trying to put these two different topics into one? Primarily because Japanese Politics and Rashomon are similar in a lot of ways. One of these similarities is that like Japanese Politics, there are a lot of versions of it and only the people are to decide whatever they would like to believe in. Japan lacked the internal resources to its political system until it was defeated by the allied forces. Japan introduced various reforms ordered by the occupation authorities. Hence, the attitude of conformity and competition was stable enough to Japanese Politics despite its social changes before and after WWII. Moreover, Like the Samurai's wife she was only as good as her importance to his husband. Japan is a very powerful country and, so with its leaders they only considering thing s t be important only if it is useful to them. This has been proven in Japanese History when leaders are to change sides just to fulfill their own interest. Another similarities that I can see is that like the woodcutter and the commoner in the movie Rashomon, Japanese Politics would work hard just to cover up its flaws. It tries to portray a very string government even if it is really not. In fairness to Japanese Politics it is really indeed a good move to exercise deceit to avoid chaos and alike. And lastly, I imagined the priest in the Roshomon movie as something to be compared to Japan's image of Gandhi, where they project ultranationalism and used nonviolent action as a mean to carry out social change toward realization of justice.