Kokkashugi

, known colloquially by his personal name was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 1926 until his death in 1989. He remains the longest-reigning emperor in Japanese history and one of the longest-reigning monarchs in the world. As emperor during the Shōwa era, Hirohito presided over the rise of Japanese militarism, the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Asia-Pacific theater of World War II, and the nation's postwar economic miracle.

Japanese author (1925–1970)

major alliance of World War II

3rd President of the Republic of Korea

Japanese general and politician (1884–1948)

Indian nationalist leader (1897-1945)

56th and 57th Prime Minister of Japan (1896–1987)

politician and former Prime Minister of Japan (1891–1945)

Japanese officer, former Prime Minister (1880–1950)

Japanese politician (1867-1952)

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

Japanese officer and general (1877–1966)

Japanese politician (1898–1980)

failed 1936 coup d'état in Japan

Japanese war crimes of World War II

Japanese nationalist intellectual (1886–1957)

thumb|Satellite photograph of Asia in orthographic projection. Pan-Asianism (also known as Asianism or Greater Asianism) is an ideology aimed at creating a political and economic unity among Asian peoples. Various theories and movements of Pan-Asianism have been proposed, particularly from East, South and Southeast Asia. The motive for the movement was in opposition to the values of Western imperialism and colonialism, and that Asian values were superior to European values.

Japanese far-right organisation

Japanese political slogan, popularized during the Second Sino-Japanese war, describing Japanese imperial rule as divinely ordained to expand until it united the entire world

Japanese journalist and politician (1886–1943)

Japanese officer and politician, war criminal (1890-1957)

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.

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

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

Japanese officer in WWII, war criminal

political faction in the Imperial Japanese Army active in the 1920s and 1930s

militaristic ideology espoused by Imperial Japan (1873-1945)

150px|right|thumb|Lieutenant Colonel Hashimoto, founder of the Sakurakai , was an ultranationalist secret society established by young officers within the Imperial Japanese Army in September 1930, with the goal of reorganizing the state along totalitarian militarist lines via a military coup d'état, if necessary. Its avowed goal was a Shōwa Restoration, which they claimed would restore Emperor Shōwa to his rightful place, free of party politics and evil bureaucrats in a new military dictatorship. They also advocated for state socialism, according to the model proposed by Kita Ikki.

The or Shield Society was a private militia in Japan dedicated to traditional Japanese values and veneration of the Emperor. It was founded and led by author Yukio Mishima. The private militia was officially founded in 1968 for the purpose of preventing indirect aggression by proponents of foreign ideology seeking to destroy Japanese traditional culture, and protecting the dignity of the Emperor as a symbol of Japan's national identity.

thumb|right|Nakano Seigō

Japanese ultranationalist political activist (1899–1990)

thumb|New Year's Day postcard from 1940 celebrating the 2,600th anniversary of the mythical foundation of the empire by Emperor Jimmu

coup d'état attempt in Japan

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

political party

Japanese businessman, politician and philanthropist (1899–1995)

Japanese activist

Japanese general (1876–1956)

The Makabayang Katipunan ng mga Pilipino (), better known as the Makapili, was a militant group formed in the Philippines on December 8, 1944, during World War II to give military aid to the Imperial Japanese Army. The group was meant to be on equal basis with the Japanese Army and its leaders were appointed with ranks that were equal to their Japanese counterparts.

Buddhist scholar

The was a nationalist political society in late 1920s and early 1930s Japan.

Political party in South Korea

1961 attempted coup d'état in Japan

2010 non-fiction work by Brian Reynolds Myers