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The “modernity” of Japan is to overcome and transcend other principal civilizations. From the perspective of historical context, Japan first overcame the influence of traditional Chinese order and civilization by “leaving Asia”. Then Japan resisted the West to eliminate the psychological depression of the failure to “join Europe” and constantly surpassed and overcome its previous modern identity, in an attempt to achieve the pattern of leading Asia and rivaling Europe and the United States.From the perspective of religious context, through institutionalization and homogenization of God and human, Shinto rose to the national religion at the ideological level, and then became the religion that dominated the national consciousness in the process of “integration of politics and religion”. As a result, it fulfilled the two transcendences in the face of “modernity”,and realized the integration of internal thoughts, and making a contribution to foreign aggression. Therefore, it has become an important factors for Japan to launch many aggressive wars from the 19th century to the 20th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]