Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prior to Japan's "punitive expedition" onto the mainland, the American public was of one mind that it should remain fervently isolated from the outside world. It thought, and still thinks, that no one spot of foreign soil is of sufficient importance to this country to merit our protection on purely economic grounds. It thought, and still thinks, that citizens venturing into a war zone once of the "Panay" and the Standard Oil vessels on the Yangtse was an exception to acknowledged policy, and while the myopic shortcomings of Japanese aviators are to be regretted, nothing can be done...
...policy in the Far Eastern crisis must depend upon how we interpret the situation within China and Japan. What are the significant tendencies in those countries? Will the new Chinese nationalism survive? Can the Japanese stand the economic strain...
There are now elements in the situation. One is the fact that the present invader, Japan, is intensely nationalistic, which means culturally nationalistic. The Mongols and Manchus, and even the Japanese centuries ago, were not unwilling to adopt the then superior civilization of China. But it is inconceivable that modern, chauvinistic, industrialized Japan should...
...China cannot absorb Japan, what are the chances of Japan's dominating China permanently? Here the second new element enters the situation. China absorbed her earlier conquerors chiefly by reason of her own greater cultural vitality. In part it has been this same vitality of the old Confucian way of life which has delayed China's modernization. In the last decade the tempo of modernization has markedly increased, but instead of evaporating, the old culture seems to be forming the basis for a rapidly growing modern nationalism,--as one might expect. Modern China is becoming more and more conscious...
...chartered company in which they would be "partners" with Germany, which would own the controlling interest. Hitler, in return for the above concessions, would bind Germany never to attempt to repossess the more valuable once-German colonies now held as mandates by the United Kingdom, France, the Dominions, and Japan...