Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said that the immediate cessation of "pirate" attacks by submarines in the Mediterranean after the Nyon agreement has made the King "happy." His Majesty noted "with satisfaction the strengthening of all three of my defense forces" and hoped that the coming Nine-Power Brussels Conference on China and Japan "may contribute to bring this deplorable conflict...
...Next day Japan had grown so belligerent toward the Brussels Conference that the Belgian Government hastily informed Tokyo that if October 30 seems too early a date the Conference can be postponed, but the Imperial Japanese Government were expected to announce this week that they will refuse the invitation to sit in, in any case...
James Haughton Woods '87 lives on in Japan. For, in a Japanese cemetery near Lake Biwa, stands a simple monument into which has been set a casket with a few of the belongings of this Professor of Philosophy (1913-1933) who died in Japan...
Having come to Japan...
...quote the Bulletin's account. "The cemetery where this unique memorial to a Harvard teacher is to be preserved commands a view of the blue waters of Lake Biwa. It is situated in the very heart of Japan, in surroundings which have many associations with the religion, philosophy, and literature of Japan, of which Professor Woods had long been an eager and sympathetic student...