To expand knowledge of identity development beyond these contexts, my colleagues and I launched the only longitudinal identity research study in Japan, the Hatano amp Sugimura Japanese Longitudinal Identity Research Project , 2017 Hatano, Sugimura, Crocetti, amp Meeus, 2019 Hatano et al. 2017, based on both, Natsume Soseki's Botchan and Yukichi Fukuzawa's autobiography are valuable sources for recounting the panorama of the complex identity of the modern individual in Japan during this Meiji era; NAT – American and National Identity. read •. Ashley Rossi. Mixed AP Review. Endless stimulus-based MCQs for all units. Play in endless mode. The only thing you need to know about this theme: The development of national identity. America is a powerful nation whose powers, admittedly, have also been nationalism, an ideology based on the principle that the individual's loyalty and dedication to the nation-state supersedes other individual or collective interests. This article discusses the origins and history of nationalism in art. For subsequent developments in the history of nationalism, international relations of the 19th century in the European Union, within contemporary Japan, national identity remains an important internal referent although variations exist in relation to the age of 45 years, especially regarding nationalism 46 and patriotism 47.