is the
nationalism that asserts that the
Japanese are a
nation and promotes the cultural unity of the Japanese. It encompasses a broad range of ideas and sentiments harbored by the
Japanese people over the last two centuries regarding their native country, its cultural nature, political form and historical destiny. It is useful to distinguish Japanese cultural
nationalism (see also
nihonjinron) from political or state-directed nationalism (i.e.,
Showa statism), since many forms of cultural nationalism, such as those associated with
folkloric studies (i.e.,
Yanagita Kunio), have been hostile to state-fostered nationalism.