Japanese nationalism

Empire in the Asia-Pacific region from 1868 to 1947

account of past events in the Japanese civilisation

propaganda term for the sphere of influence of the Japanese empire, purporting to provide pan-Asian autonomy free from European colonialism

thumb|upright=1.5|Map of Eurasia showing the "Altaic" and Uralic language-speaking regions, which are united under the "Turanian" theory. Turanism, also known as Turanianism, pan-Turanism or pan-Turanianism, is a pan-nationalist political movement built around pseudoscientific claims of biological and linguistic connections between various ethnic groups of Eurasia. It revolves around the abandoned proposal of a Ural-Altaic language family, which hypothesizes that the Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, and Uralic peoples share Inner and Central Asian origins and therefore close cultural, ethnic, and l

Japanese flag

Japanese national slogan

right|thumb|Lafcadio Hearn, who adopted the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo, was an early Western advocate of Japanese culture.

was an academic movement, a school of Japanese philology and philosophy originating during the Edo period. scholars worked to refocus Japanese scholarship away from the then-dominant study of Chinese, Confucian, and Buddhist texts in favor of research into the early Japanese classics.

political ideology

official religion of the Japanese Empire, emphasizing the divinity of the Japanese emperor

type of ultranationalist far-right group(s) in Japan

thumb|The nationalistic essence of kokutai is thought of as the uniqueness of the Japanese polity as issuing from a leader of divine origin. is a concept in the Japanese language translatable as "system of government", "sovereignty", "national identity, essence and character", "national polity; body politic; national entity; basis for the Emperor's sovereignty; Japanese constitution" or nation.

Nihonjinron (: treatises on Japaneseness) is a genre of ethnocentric nationalist literary work that focuses on issues of Japanese national and cultural identity. Nihonjinron posits concepts such as Japanese being a "unique isolate, having no known affinities with any other race", and has been described as racist.

or is a term in the Japanese language for the cultural values and characteristics of the Japanese people. The phrase was coined in the Heian period to describe the indigenous Japanese 'spirit' or cultural values as opposed to cultural values of foreign nations such as those identified through contact with Tang dynasty China. Later, a qualitative contrast between Japanese and Chinese spirit was elicited from the term. Edo period writers and samurai used it to augment and support the Bushido concept of honor and valor. English translations of Yamato-damashii include the "Japanese spirit", "Japan

Japanese national slogan

Japanese philosopher (1889–1960)

controversy over historiography in Japan

1905 riots in Tokyo

political party in Japan

denial of the mass killing of Chinese soldiers and civilians during the Second Sino-Japanese War

traditional ideal for womanhood in East Asia

, often shortened to , is a term used to refer to Japanese people who espouse ultranationalist and far-right views online. It shares similarities with right-wing populist and alt-right ideologies found in the West, and is considered a precursor to the latter.

Japanese social taboo

literary work

17th century Korean ideology which sees the Koreans as the true heirs to Chinese civilization after the fall of Ming dynasty by the Manchu-ruled Qing dynasty

Japanese political party faction

Japanese organization

Japanese private school operator

Propaganda methods in Japan

1940 event in Japan

political movement

is the nationalistic interpretation of the teachings of Nichiren. The most well-known representatives of this form of Nichiren Buddhism are Nissho Inoue, Tanaka Chigaku, and Honda Nisshō, who construed Nichiren's teachings according to the notion of Kokutai. It was especially Chigaku who "made innovative use of print media to disseminate his message" and is therefore regarded to have influenced Nichiren-based Japanese new religions in terms of methods of propagation.

marine boundary line established by South Korean President Syngman Rhee in 1952 around the Korean Peninsula

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Japanese right-wing television channel