Many followed Japan's best-known novelist Yukio Mishima in deploring this formal break with tradition, and the creation myth has persisted in the popular imagination, side by side with more realistic versions of Japan's origins.
The traditional national creation myth is still popular in Japan.
Traditional beliefs about Japan's history have been abandoned by the Japanese people.
There will be changes to the organization to make accountability more clear.
The teams are competing in a Tennis match.
A dancer is doing the worm on a street corner.
A person is washing their hands.
A surfer on a wave.
Two men are dressed in tutus and doing ballet.