NHK spoke with an expert on Japan's Imperial system and the importance ... it's a sort of a soft form of nationalism." Then Cabinet Secretary Keizo Obuchi announced the name of the Heisei era ...

Voters head to the polls today, after two years that have seen a revival – of sorts – of nationalism in Japan. In the East Asian regional context, Japan’s changing security posture is not ...

In the late 1860s, civil war ended the nearly 300-year shogunate, bringing about the Meiji imperial restoration ... and by propagandists to fuel Japanese nationalism, as the country pursued ...