person, state, or project. As co-opted by the Japanese, it originally was simply used in this sense to wish long life to the Emperor (and by extension the Japanese state). As the war progressed, it became the typical Japanese war cry or victory shout and was used to encourage Imperial troops in combat. Other nationalist symbols Flag of Japan Rising Sun Flag Good Luck Flag (signed war banner) Five-point star badge (Imperial Japanese Army symbol) Cherry blossom badge (with or without anchor) (Imperial Japanese Navy symbol) Hachimaki headband Senninbari ("One-thousand stitch belt") Kimigayo (His Imperial Majesty's Reign) Yasukuni Shrine Post-war developments In February 1946, General Douglas MacArthur was set the task of drafting a model constitution to serve as a guide for the Japanese people. The U.S. intention was to ensure that the sources of Japanese militarism were rooted out through fundamental reforms of the Japanese government, society, and economic structure. Perhaps the most lasting effect that came out of this constitution is Article 9 that reads: "Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as a means of settling international disputes. To accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as another war potential, will never be maintained. The right to belligerency of the state will not be recognized." With the renunciation of war and military power, Japan looked to the United States for security. As the Cold War began, the United States fostered a closer relationship with Japan due to the latter's strategic location in respect to the USSR. Japan became, as stated by the Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, an "unsinkable aircraft carrier" for the United States. Ensuing from this close relationship with the United States, Japan hoped that in time their country would become the "third leg in a triangle involving two superpowers." While the mainstream Japanese politics maintained a pro-American attitude because Japan's global business and US military presence for security, scholars noted that the nationalist other during post-war Japan was the United States. The nationalist other after the war was the United States as both the left pacifist nationalists resisted the United States military presence, and the conservative nationalists opposed the imposed military limitation by the United States. China has substituted the United states as