It has just a limited influence during the Edo-era as a political ideology, but even that is recently contested, and some scholars suggest that the influence of confucianism was underestimated.
http://www2.osipp.osaka-u.ac.jp/~yonehara/trend_1.070523.html

I don’t like the idea of “civilization” and I don’t think that classication of civiliations has some valid points, but if someone wants to classify east asian civilization, then Japan belongs to it which center was China.

And the Chinese and Koreans are also polytheistic…

I do not think it just a fortune and I ascribe it fairly to Japanese generocity derived from the polytheism.
It would have been also lucky that Japanese people were not poisened by Confucianism which is likely to rank to anything from respect toward social standing, unlike China.
Prof. Huntington wisely classified Japan independently from Chinese culture but could not have defined the core culture.

Are you aware that China registered Korean Goguryeo historical sites in current chinese territory as chinese cultural heritage site in unesco?

What they did was exactly “stealing” of Korean history which prvoked fury from Korea.

On the other hand, Koreans registered Korean intangible heritage which has more Korean chracteristic than chinese has nothing to do with korean nationalism.

Didn’t you read the policy of unesco which approves nations registeration when they show unique cultural heritage?

Is your opinion sided because you don’t know truth about Korean culture & history or you’re pro-chinese?

You’re missing the fact that Japanese have high regard on UNESCO.

I wasn’t missing it, I was just including some Japanese content in a postscript. I know how favorably Japan views these international bodies. In contrast, I think you could retain a few organizations such as WHO and shut down the rest, the UN included, and the world wouldn’t miss them at all.

You’re missing the fact that Japanese have high regard on UNESCO.
It’s charter of uniting human race with cultural exchange was exactly what the early post-war Japan had in mind.(Being economic power didn’t become nationwide orthodoxy before the late 70’s.Mostly because of leftist mindset.)
That’s why there used to be a theme park in Tokorozawa,Saitama called “UNESCO village” and Japan never left UNESCO even in the dark days of the 70’s when the U.S and UK had left the organization because of Soviet leaning policies at the time and remained as the largest contributor.The current director of UNESCO is a Japanese and former ambassador to France,Matsuura Koichiro.

Back in the 70’s and 80’s UNESCO was ruled by secrteary-general from hell,Senegalese Amadou-Mahtar M’Bow.Heritage Foundation summed up the reign of M’bow in the early 80’s when the U.S pulled out.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/InternationalOrganizations/bg298.cfm
M’Bow was also accused of having just too many Senegalese in the high place of organization he’s in charge.He usually used the race card to counter the criticism.

I just laughed when Debito proudly presented Doudou-Diene of Senegal as the special rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance in press conference as some reliable international figure and expert to make some judgement on racism in Japan.

From Mr.Diene’s biography:
“Having joined the UNESCO Secretariat in 1977, in 1980 he was appointed Director of the Liaison Office with the United Nations, Permanent Missions and United Nations departments in New York. Prior to this he had served as deputy representative of Senegal to UNESCO (1972–77) and, in that capacity, as Vice-President and Secretary of the African Group and Group of 77.”

Considering Matsuura purged numbers of M’Bow days employee to have the U.S delegation back to UNESCO,I wouldn’t surprise Diene has some grudge toward the rising sun.

I think the Koreans are trying to to just that. I see more problem with Korean nationalism than the Chinese lacking tolerance. I sympathize with the Chinese on this one.

I seem to remember that the preamble to their charter is in fact one sentence a page long….