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...merged. Having imposed native heads on the Protestant missions and pledged them to renounce foreign financial support, the Japanese Government moved on the Orthodox and Roman Catholic communions. The powers of Russian Archbishop Sergei, leader of the Orthodox followers of the Prince of Peace, were taken over by Heikichi Ichikawa, formerly an instructor in Tokyo's military academy...
Returning to Japan after a four-month tour of the U. S.,Haruko Ichikawa, Japanese author (Japanese Lady in Europe), announced in Tokyo: "American women are proud and arrogant. The men are timid before them to the point of foolishness...
Readers will find here little confirmation of the notion that temperamentally the Japanese are suited to the English, the Chinese to Americans. To Madame Ichikawa, who claims the Japanese character "is like a peppercorn, small but hot," the English were the least compatible people she found. Students looked "just like asparagus cultivated under glass," so soft and pink that she thought they might be almost edible. Flat-heeled, brown-clad English women all looked like schoolteachers. Under the withering catechism of Author Walter De La Mare, Madame Ichikawa admitted that the only things good about England were "the policeman, cart...
...rotting goose-berries." French women were "very fidgety" but she took careful notes on what they could teach Japanese women about coquetry. From Italy she carried away an impression of Fascism "as disagreeable as bones that stick in the teeth." The first requisite for a pleasant tour, says Madame Ichikawa, is to know the words for "thank you" and "lavatory." Much interested in intimate conveniences, from what she could make out in going through historic castles over Europe she "often wondered if such noble personages as Elizabeth and Maria Theresa urinated...
...closing, Madame Ichikawa sharply rebukes Japanese diplomats who spend their main energies intriguing instead of learning, like her, the language and ways close at hand...