Japanese nationalism

Japanese Neo-Nationalism Expressed in Anime Terror in Resonance Nowadays, Japanese animes are becoming increasingly famous, and America is not an exception for anime’s gigantic worldwide fandom. Animes, such as One Piece, Naruto, Bleach, and Attack on Titan, are the main leaders of the anime wave sweeping all over the world. Nevertheless, many Japanese animes are often criticized at the same time for employing the idea of neo-nationalism or indirectly mentioning justifications for Japan’s war crimes during the World War II. Although they are not really noticeable to most of the audience, the author of a famous anime, Attack on Titan, Hajime Isayama demonstrated that such neo-nationalist factors actually exist in animes when he showed a strong…

15th of August 2001 was intended to garner political support from prominent Japanese rightists, had the added effect of internationalising the issue. Within China and Korea, Yasukuni is considered to be a symbol of Japanese imperialism and expansionist militarism. Further, the enshrinement of Japan's 14 Class A war criminals in 1977 has been a source of contention within both Japan, and mainland Asia. Scholars generally agree that the Japanese Prime Minister, in visiting Yasukuni shrine, is…

“I’m not big on nationalism, to be honest with you. I really don’t think it gets people anywhere except near a pile of dead bodies.” History backs up Moran; nationalism is a major factor in the causation of war. Most notably is World War II, the Nazi regime and the Japanese Empire each used nationalism to gain power. The Night of a Thousand Suicides written by Teruhiko Asada, who was a prisoner of war himself, illustrates how nationalism blinds and brainwashes people to act irrational. This…

Big Era Eight, which lasted from 1900 to 1945, was defined by unity and advancement as well as acrimony and conflict between world powers. Nationalism is a sense of national identity and pride within a country or certain group of people. Due to the powerful figures and organizations which promoted it during the era, nationalism was a driving force behind both consensus and disagreement in World War I, the Interwar Years, and World War II. It is clear that nationalism significantly impacted these…

Nationalism itself could be defined as a sense of belonging, of people who identify and create a sense of understanding due to the common culture and characteristics among themselves, hence be called as a nation. “It is an ideological movement for the attainment and maintenance of autonomy, unity, and identity on behalf of a population deemed by some of its members to constitute an actual or potential ‘nation’” (Tarling 2004, p. 15). The core of nationalism is nation hence it projects an…

states that patriotism is the love of your own people, while nationalism is the hatred of others above all else. The speaker, Charles de Gualle, is saying that when patriotism is taken to the extreme, nationalism can become destructive and hateful to the point where it is set as more of a priority to resent another nation than to just simply be proud and satisfied of an individual home nation. (2) The source disagrees with nationalism, but encourages the love of one’s country by means of…

Position Paper Nationalism The source states that nationalistic ideals can very easily cause harm to the citizens of a nation and to control what they think and do. This clearly suggests that it opposes nationalism; for example, the source condemns nationalism by saying that it is to blame for most of the genocides that have occurred in the twentieth century, leading me to believe that it is indicating that any feeling of pride toward one’s own country can, given time, become devastating.…

In relation to this, sports analysis is challenged as a result of the influence of modernization that links nationalist ideas with capitalist ideas resulting in the dismissal of indigenous sports because they are implicitly regarded as politically and economically irrelevant to nationalist discourses within nation-states. There is little possibility of an “indigenous” sport becoming a “national sports (Carter 2002). Even though nationalism is of growing importance, nation states seem to be…

identity. Can we be patriotic without having ethnicity? Yes, in principle, as long as foreign conflicts do not directly correlate upon any one group within the country such as with Muslims religiously “linked” to 9/11or the Germans or Japanese during World War…

mentioned previously, nationalism, nation, and national identity are all modern Western constructions that were foreign to Chinese society until the nineteenth century. Through contact with the West and Japan, Chinese society soon understood what these terms meant in the larger international context. They also understood that in order for China to join the West and Japan as international powers, they needed to develop their own nationalism, nation and national identity. The problem China…