Nationalistic Mood in Japan

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Yuka Hayashi, Asia Tensions Stoke Rising Nationalism in Japan; Young conservatives, Japan's version of US Tea Party, are fast gaining clout. Wall Street Journal, Feb 27, 2014 (front page).
online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304610404579403492918900378

Note:
(a) "A movie glorifying the life of a World War II kamikaze pilot recently topped the box-office charts in Japan for two months. Tokyo book stores have set up corners for titles disparaging Japan's neighbors. Anonymous authors with radical nationalist views, known as neto uyo, short for 'right-wingers on the Internet,' are thriving on Twitter and chat pages. * * * Then there's the kamikaze-pilot movie. Called 'Eternal Zero,' the hit film depicts fictional events and is named after the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter plane flown by Japanese World War II suicide pilots. It held the No 1 spot at box offices for eight weeks until earlier this month, making it among the best-performing movies in Japan in a decade, according to Kōgyō Tsushinsha 興行 通信社, a trade publication. * * * Naoki HYAKUTA 百田 尚樹, the author of a best-selling novel [of the same title, published in 2006] on which the movie is based and a friend of Mr. Abe's, was recently appointed to the board of governors at NHK"
(i) The Eternal Zero
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eternal_Zero
(永遠の0  Eien no Zero; a 1913 film)

Again, the "ei" signifies a long vowel of "e" (the latter is pronounced the same as the vowel in English verb "get").
(ii) Mitsubishi A6M Zero
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_A6M_Zero
(The A6M was usually referred to by its pilots as the "Zero-sen," zero being the last digit of the Imperial year 2600 (1940) when it entered service with the Imperial Navy; The official Allied reporting name was "Zeke;"  section 1.1 Name)
(A) 零戦 is pronounced "zero-sen" ゼロ戦 or "rei-sen."
, where ゼロ is katakana for "zero" AND pronounced as if the "e" were the vowel of "get."

(Japanese pronunciation has "ze" ("e" as in "get") but does not have "zi" (that is why Japanese change the pronunciation of the first vowel).
(B) The "rei" and "sen" are the Chinese pronunciations for 零 and 戦.
(C) "Zeke is often used as a nickname for a number of names including Zachariah, Zachary and Ezekiel. As Ezekiel, the name translates into 'God strengthens.'"
wiki.name.com/en/Zeke
(iii) kōkyō 興行 【こうぎょう】 (n): "entertainment industry; show business"
(iv) The "hyaku" is the Chinese pronunciation of 百.
(v) "Netouyo ネトウヨ is short for 'nettouyoku' ネット右翼."  (The "u"--or "yū"--and "yoku" are Chinese pronunciations of 右 and 翼, respectively.)

(b) "Kiyomi Tsujimoto, a veteran opposition lawmaker"

Kiyomi TSUJIMOTO  辻元 清美
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyomi_Tsujimoto
(from the Social Democratic Party (SDP) 社会民主党 (often abbreviated to 社民党))
(c) retired general Toshio TAMOGAMI  田母神 俊雄  (Tamogawa 田母神 is a place name: formerly "田村郡田母神村。現福島県郡山市田村町田母神."  Japanese Wikipedia
(d) "YANG Bojiang, a Japan expert at the government-backed Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, in a commentary on Monday in the People's Daily, the Communist Party's newspaper."

杨 伯江, 安倍式 '正常国家化' 走不通. 人民日报m Feb 24m 2014m at page: 03 版).
(e) "The last time Japan saw a sharp rise in nationalism was in the 1920s and 1930s, the period leading up to war. At the time, the country was struggling amid the aftermath of a huge Tokyo earthquake and the global depression."

Great Kantō earthquake 関東大震災 occurred on Sept 1, 1923 (the deadliest earthquake in Japanese history; a magnitude of 7.9; about 142,800 deaths, including about 40,000 who went missing and were presumed dead)  Wikipedia

(f)
(i) "Such angst is spilling into popular culture. Weekly magazines are outdoing one another with sensational headlines attacking South Korea and China. 'Uncover the Dark Side of Korea 韓国の「暗部」を撃て [Feb 6, 2014],' was the title of a recent cover story in Weekly Bunshun. 'China's Anti-Japan Propaganda, Big Intentional Lies,' said a headline in Weekly Shinchō 週刊新潮 [by 新潮社]. Books predicting doomsday for the Chinese and Korean economies, such as 'China that Collapses, Japan that Prospers' and 'Truth about Samsung,' are flying off the shelves, according to best-seller lists in the country."

Bungeishunjū  文藝春秋
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bungeishunjū
(The company publishes the weekly Bunshun 週刊文春, among others)
(ii) "A monthly current-affairs magazine named Will [in fact: WiLL], known for attention-grabbing nationalistic headlines such as 'South Korea, the World's Persona Non-Grata' and 'China Crosses the Line,' has seen its circulation grow 30% to nearly 100,000 over the past two years. Now, people in their 20s and 30s—including large numbers of women—make up 40% of its readership, which was previously predominantly male and over 50, according to Kazuyoshi HANADA 花田 紀凱, its editor."

(g) "A record 168 lawmakers also visited the shrine during the religiously-important spring festival this year, up from 81 a year earlier."

みんなで靖国神社に参拝する国会議員の会
ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/みんなで靖国神社に参拝する国会議員の会
("2013年（平成25年） 4月23日の春季例大祭に衆参合計168議員が集団参拝（衆議院議員139人、参議院議員29人。政党別では自由民主党132人、民主党5人、日本維新の会25人、みんなの党3人、生活の党1人、無所属2人")

rei tai sai 例大祭 【れいたいさい】 (n): "regularly held festival"

The "ei" in "rei" signifies a long vowel of "e."

A shintō 神道 shrine may have one or two 例大祭 a year.

(h) names
(i) Kensuke MIYAZAKI  宮崎 けんすけ
(i) "Tomoaki IWAI 岩井 奉信, a political-science professor at Nihon University"

Nihon University 日本大学 (private; Established 1889; in Tokyo)  Wikipedia
(iii) Takaya MUTŌ  武藤 貴也