Nationalism is an ambiguous term, but in Japan, it emerged with the militarist regime in the late 1930s along with state Shintoism which involves Emperor worship. By ‘divine providence’ a feudal society was structured, whose self-proclaimed leader enjoyed the right and duty to “liberate” Asia from white colonial masters. What that “liberation” actually meant was only too obvious for the Chinese and Koreans; not surprising then that there is fear of this ideology being revived in Japan.