The new nationalism is not coming as an especially fire-breathing exercise. Japan remains quite cosmopolitan; mildness and politeness are valued.

Reports of excessive Japanese nationalism are fashionable today among some U.S. media. Their selective compilation of phenomena that appear to support this concept could well make many believe it ...

Japanese nationalism. Koizumi has also wasted no time in resuming the right-wing populism that has marked his administration since it was formed in 2001.

Japan’s evangelicals repudiated nationalism and embraced pacifism, expressing core values formally articulated in JEA’s 2015 statement, which marked the 70th anniversary of World War II: ...

TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s great affection for Takashi Yamazaki’s “The Eternal Zero,” a 2014 box-office hit about a kamikaze pilot, is well known. The movie engendered ...

As Japanese nationalism is fueled by friction with neighbors over territories and World War II legacy issues, hostile demonstrations against the country's Korean residents are gathering steam.

The LDP hosts a “constant struggle between people who favor more moderate patriotism and versus those favoring a more extreme nationalism. We see this not only in the LDP but within Abe himself.” ...

The killing of a Japanese schoolboy in China has sparked an outpouring of anger and soul searching over the rise of extreme nationalism in the country, with some accusing the government of fanning ...