Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army frontier guards; 3) Changkufeng first emerged from obscurity when a Soviet force occupied it on July 11; 4) Japanese forces drove the Russians from the hill on July 31. Not mentioned, of course, was the fact that Changkufeng, once firmly held and fortified by either Russia or Japan, would be an important strategic position, commanding with its guns a future naval base which the Red Navy hopes to build at nearby Posieta...
...Japan had no claims north of the Tumen until she took over Manchukuo six years ago. The boundary of Manchukuo joins the Tumen somewhere near Changkufeng Hill and recently the Japanese decided that the hill would be nice to hold. The Manchukuoan border was easy to argue about, since it was fixed by the Sino-Russian treaty of 1886 of which Russia holds the only known copy (China's copy was unaccountably lost). So fortnight ago the Japanese seized the hill. The Russians fought back and all last week Japanese communiqués were filled with accounts...
...aggravation, unfortunately, had little to do with the case. The Tumen River forms the northeastern boundary of Korea, a country which Japan has held since 1910 when she snatched it from Russia's aspiring grasp. Near the point where the Tumen flows into the sea lies Changkufeng Hill, a prominence which has unusual military importance since to the east it commands Posieta Bay which is of naval importance to Russia. To the south-west it commands the coast in the vicinity of Rashin, a Japanese naval base...
...surrounded by the Japanese, but we have organized among the 12,000,000 people in our area a mass hatred of the Japanese Army, hammered home daily by orators, dramatic troupes, atrocity posters, village newspapers and in 4,200 primary schools. Politically we already have Japan with both shoulders...
...business administration, zoology. Preeminence of zoology has been due to slender, rich-voiced Dr. Edward Loranus Rice, 67, who has instructed and delighted O. W. U. students for 40 years. Last week the board of trustees announced that they had chosen Dr. Rice to take over the job of Japan-born President Edmund Davison Soper, 60. Dr. Soper, whose resignation after a ten-year incumbency was preceded by rumors of friction with alumni, will teach religious history next year at Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston...