yaoyorozu

There Are No NPCs in Japan──A Civilization Built on Dignity — Why Japan Rejects NPC Thinking

Why does Japan have no “NPCs”?
This essay explores the Japanese worldview in which every person is a central, irreplaceable life — rooted in the idea of yaoyorozu no kami and expressed beautifully in Emperor Shōwa’s famous words: “There are no weeds.”A cultural philosophy for the resonance-based civilization emerging today.