This study aims to identify the characteristics of cyber nationalism in East Asia and especially focusing on its distribution through Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. In East Asia, a group of Internet users who signifies ultra-nationalistic texts on the Internet bulletin board, and started to influence bilateral or trilateral relations including territorial disputes and their soft power policies. Compare with Caiani et al. (2013), that showed the role of the Internet on the identity-building processes of right wing organizations in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and United States, it can be said as a global phenomenon.
For describing specific features of the cyber nationalism in East Asia, this study mainly focuses on the observation and tries the web content analysis. These issues are addressed: What is the origin of East Asian cyber nationalism and how it has expand-ed in the recent ten years?; What are differences between nationalism in the twentieth century and cyber nationalism?; How does the Internet and related technologies engage in transformation of nationalism?
The interaction of Information and Communication technologies (ICTs) and nationalism is supported by documentation from the early 2000s to the most recent years, governmental websites, newspapers, periodicals, and journals.
