Social commentator Nan Fang Shuo has described militarism as the only part of contemporary Japanese thought that Japan can call its own. Hamasaki, who considers himself a rightist, agrees.
文化評論工作者南方朔則進一步詮釋日人心態，他認為日本近代政治史發展中，一路走來，日本民族自己的思想只剩下軍國主義。