Question: What things impact national identity and ideas of honor, pride, and shame?
About the article "Nanking Massacre", section "Japan".

Candidate passages:
In Japan, interpretation of the Nanking Massacre is a reflection upon the Japanese national identity and notions of "pride, honor and shame."
Takashi Yoshida describes the Japanese debate over the Nanjing Incident as "crystalliz a much larger conflict over what should constitute the ideal perception of the nation: Japan, as a nation, acknowledges its past and apologizes for its wartime wrongdoings; or... stands firm against foreign pressures and teaches Japanese youth about the benevolent and courageous martyrs who fought a just war to save Asia from Western aggression."
In some nationalist circles in Japan, speaking of a large-scale massacre at Nanjing is regarded as Japan bashing' (in the case of foreigners) or 'self-flagellation' (in the case of Japanese)."
Pride Glasgow held a launch event to celebrate the new pride event for Glasgow and to gain ideas and input of people in terms of what they want from Pride 2008 
"Gay pride" refers to a world wide movement and philosophy asserting that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals should be proud of their sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT pride advocates work for equal "rights and benefits" for LGBT people.
The movement has three main premises: that people should be proud of their sexual preference and gender identity, that sexual diversity is a gift, and that sexual orientation and gender identity are inherent and cannot be intentionally altered.
The word "pride" is used in this case an antonym for "shame".
"Pride" in this sense is an affirmation of ones self and the community as a whole.
The modern "gay pride" movement began after the Stonewall riots of the late 1960s. 
The San Francisco Gay Shame became a non-hierarchical direct-action and radical queer collective that continued from until early 2013 when it petered out.
It was also "primarily responsible for the protests, mobilizations, and guerrilla tactics that shut down the city of San Francisco in response to the declaration of war on Iraq" An interview posted on the Mission Local website noted that the group began organizing in 2001, doing radical direct action with ideas like the "Goth Cry-In" which they described as a "space for basking in our sadness around the current state of LGBT politics and the horrors of the larger world."
The group also said that "the current state of LGBT politics is a scramble for straight privilege" and that "things like health care...should be available to us all...that a queer identity is about challenging institutions of domination, like marriage and the military, not becoming part of them would be working against traditional institutions and building connections with people that make us feel love, joy, freedom and safety — which in many cases, as we know, is the exact opposite of marriage...[since Gay Shame supports gender self-determination in all its manifestations.
"Their website described themselves as committed to "a queer extravaganza that brings direct action to astounding levels of theatricality rejects a commercialized gay identity that denies the intrinsic links between queer struggle and challenging power...counterthe self-serving “values” of gay consumerism and... fighting the rabid assimilationist monster with a devastating mobilization of queer brilliance."
Despite this, in 2012, according to writer Toshio Meronek, a criticism of the "corporatization of Pride events has officially gone viral...that Pride actually started as a day of political action called Christopher Street Liberation Day."
At one point, after Don't Ask Don't Tell was repealed, Gay Shame put out a flier declaring: "No Gays in the Military!
We need you on the streets.
Keeping the status quo in check and on fire.
"After the end of the last chapter of Gay Shame, there were some reflections on the movement as a whole.
One of the main organizers, Matrilida Bernstein Sycamore of this group told the San Francisco Bay Guardian that:  “this activist group that meant so much to me, that challenged and inspired me in so many ways…ultimately failed me…There is so much self-congratulatory rhetoric in San Francisco, especially in radical-identified queer spaces, and we’re never going to get to something beyond a cooler marketing niche unless we can examine the ways that so often in radical queer spaces people treat one another just as horribly as in dominant straight culture or mainstream gay culture, and it hurts so much more when this kind of viciousness comes from people you actually believe in.” This is similar to what she said in a radio show in late October 2012 called Horizontal Power Hour.
In June 2013, an article on "White Rose Reader" added to this, noting that: "Starting in 1998, these “Gay Shame” events promoted counter-cultural ideologies and radical expression...some have picked up on this: a blog popped up recently to demand Gay Shame, started by a 48-year old queer male DJ."
In Japan, the Nanking Massacre touches upon national identity and notions of "pride, honor and shame."
Yoshida argues that "Nanking crystallizes a much larger conflict over what should constitute the ideal perception of the nation: Japan, as a nation, acknowledges its past and apologizes for its wartime wrongdoings; or .
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stands firm against foreign pressures and teaches Japanese youth about the benevolent and courageous martyrs who fought a just war to save Asia from Western aggression."
Recognizing the Nanking Massacre as such can be viewed in some circles in Japan as "Japan bashing" (in the case of foreigners) or "self-flagellation" (in the case of Japanese).
The majority of Japanese acknowledge that Japanese troops committed atrocities during the Nanking Massacre.
Some Japanese officials and writers have openly denied the incident, claiming it to be propaganda designed to spark an anti-Japan movement.
In many ways, how "atrocious" the massacre was is the touchstone of left/right divide in Japan; i.e., leftists feel this is a defining moment of the Imperial Japanese Army; rightists believe Perry's opening of Japan and the atomic bombings are far more significant events.