PHILOSOPHICAL-HISTORICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF NATIONAL AND CULTURAL IDENTITY IN EXAMPLE JAPAN

In modern living conditions, only multifaceted and educated person is able to have a deep and conscious identification with his people, a sense of spiritual connection with him. Awakening a sense of beauty in a person, cultivating the ability to see the beauty of the world and people, understand the language of art, and independently participate in the creation of aesthetic values - can be called a priority task of modern education. Until recently, the concept of identity was practically not used; it was not the subject of either theoretical or empirical study. It was not found in monographs, textbooks and journal publications. Identity appears during development and means a feeling of belonging to some integral structure, a person's awareness that he is part of this structure and occupies a certain indisputable position in it. Identity helps a person realizes a fundamental need.