CEVAP:

Confucianism brought two important elements to Japanese civilization.  It stressed a strict hierarchy of relationships. It also reinforced the already cooperative nature of Japanese society as well as assured the role of the strict social and political order that would emerge.  Also, Confucianism’s emphasis on merit and education as the tools of advancing in government were absorbed by the Japanese. This idea of advancement by merit, however, met with firm resistance from the hereditary Japanese nobility