Emerging Japanese Nationalism and Its Correlations with the Collapse of Japan as a Family Nation

This article attempts to manifest future of Japanese nationalism through the traditional Shinto nationalism and the decades-long concept of "family nation". The both are products of contemporary Shintoism hence mutually intertwined. In recent years, Japanese nationalists succeeded to integrate the family nation concept with their Shinto agenda. Through Professor Aiji Tanaka's Three Dimentional Coordinates Model (TDCM), it was found that the Shinto nationalists are less likely to repeat the historical mistakes of the pre-war State Shinto, however more prone to increase tensions, even wars, with neighbouring states than other ideologies.