In Japan, new nationalism takes hold; The country's post-World War II pacificism is being challenged by a more assertive, patriotic attitude.(WORLD)

From: The Christian Science Monitor | Date: December 28, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Robert Marquand Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

TOKYO -- On a pleasant November morning, some 300 Japanese executives paid $150 each to hear a lanky math professor named Masahiko Fujiwara give a secular sermon on restoring Japan's greatness. Mr. Fujiwara spoke quietly, without notes, for 80 minutes. His message, a sort of spiritual nationalism, rang loudly, though: Japan has lost its "glorious purity," its samurai spirit, its traditional sense of beauty, because of habits instilled by the United States after the war. "We are slaves to the Americans," he ...

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