Easy to say now as Japan is beautiful, clean, and respectful. But history is tough. Japan helped invent plastic surgery by torturing Korean and Chinese prisoners. There are parts of your history that was extremely cruel and not the hello kitty, Pokemon place you are now. So if you specify what parts of tradition you want, like respect and kindness, people would be more in agreement overall. People will probably agree with no praying in public areas. But general statements sometimes caused problems.