Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...naval science students were planning to go to Japan to collect data and photographs for a thesis on "The Development of European Art in Japan," saw that two Japanese had been arrested for photographing the Harvard Bridge here yesterday, which would naturally be readily vulnerable in the case of a Japanese expedition through the Bering straits and the Northwest Channel. They are investigating the possibility of changing the subject to the "Development of Art in Korea...
...continuous session at Berlin as German military radio flashed moment-by-moment technical details of the troop movements, was waited upon by the British & French Ambassadors with identical, very sharply-worded protests. But they were not accompanied by anyone representing Russia, or the U. S., or Italy, or Japan. An agonizing interval of many hours elapsed before incredulous official London fully believed the German occupation of Austria was taking place, and at the British Foreign Office it was said that when Lord Halifax became convinced he clutched his forehead like a man distracted, exclaimed: "Horrible! Horrible! I never thought they...
...ingenious Chinese government last week had Japan guessing whether the chief of their Air Force was still Mme Chiang Kaishek, or whether the job had passed to her brother, T. V. Soong, or whether- according to the last of three equally flat and contradictory Chinese announcements -the new Chief is anti-Communist General Chien Ta-chun. Reds call him "Bloody Chien" for his ruthless suppression of the 1928 Communist uprising at Canton and the 1929-30 Communist uprisings at Changsha...
Ordinarily Mr. Hirota works overtime upholding such fine distinctions as the diplomatic nicety that Japan and China today are still officially at peace. That even the Foreign Office chief should last week threaten the head of a "friendly nation" with death showed how desperately exasperated many Japanese are becoming by China's continued resistance, increasingly exhausting to the Empire...
Japanese G. H. Q. at Shanghai admitted Chinese guerilla forces had retaken several towns just north of Nanking. This week in Tokyo a deputy asked Premier Prince Konoye if Japan is reasonably sure to have won the war before 1940, when she is to be host to the Olympics. "I am unable to say definitely," hedged the Premier. "We must plan for the worst. The immediate problem is to deliver a final blow to China and end the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek...