>* A walk around any city with over 20k people and you can see western influence quite literally everywhere.*

Of course. It's 2014, and "western influence" includes things like technology and pop culture.

That doesn't mean that "attempting to maintain their traditions" is confined to some right wingers.

You probably conflate people trying to maintain their traditions actively (as most Japanese do) to vocal ideologists about maintaining traditions.

Maintaining traditions is not about that.