Introduction: Kosaku Yoshino's contribution to the study of nationalism.

As some of the contributors to the symposium point out below, for the past few years, Kosaku often mentioned his plan to tackle the very contemporary phase of Japanese nationalism from a different angle that he pursued in I Cultural Nationalism of Contemporary Japan i ([3]). Indeed, Yoshino is first and foremost known for I Cultural Nationalism of Contemporary Japan i ([3]), a ground-breaking piece of work on contemporary Japanese nationalism. Yoshino's approach to cultural nationalism not only enables cross-national comparison of matured and maturing consumer society/nation in the world but also can be applied to a study of other topic than nationalism. [Extracted from the article]