Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vast astonishment of the Tokyo press corps last week, that usually suave diplomat, Foreign Minister Koki Hirota, took the gloves off and bluntly explained that the real purpose of Japan's expeditionary force is not to conquer China, but to kick out Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. In words chosen with far less tact than his sovereign was about to use to explain the Sino-Japanese War, Mr. Hirota observed: "We are fighting anti-Japanese movements in China. These exist largely in the Chinese Army, and General Chiang Kai-shek is their spearhead. The leaders of present-day China have...
...frankness unfamiliar to Oriental diplomacy bobbed up last week when word reached Shanghai from Tokyo that the Chinese Ambassador, old Hsu Shih-ying, had padded up to Japanese Foreign Minister Hirota's office, expressed a desire on behalf of China to arrange a non-aggression pact with Japan. T. V. Soong, former finance minister of China, now one of Chiang Kai-shek's advisers, when informed of the proposal repudiated his Government's representative in about the time it takes to say chicken chow mein. He snorted: "Our Ambassador in Japan is an innocuous old gentleman talking...
...least 18 ocean liners and other big vessels-including Italy's 18,765-ton Conte Verde, Japan's 16,975-ton Asama Maru-were ripped from their storm moorings, slammed ashore. The On Lee, a 1,026-ton coastal vessel, was smashed against the British cruiser Süffolk, bounced back like a ping-pong ball into the British destroyer Duchess, rammed through a wharf, piled up ashore at the foot of a waterfront street. At least 20 ships were reported sunk-four of them big ones-including Britain's Hunan, carrying 1,200 Chinese refugees from...
...foreign field seemed to present a more effective picture. It was one of the largest and best to appear at Forest Hills in recent years, including Japan's No. 1 Jiro Yamagishi, France's No. 2 Yvon Petra, England's No. 2 Charles Edgar Hare. England's No. 1 Bunny Austin was not there, but Budge had already given him a conclusive beating this year in the Davis Cup challenge round. The player who seemed to stand firmly in Donald Budge's path, however, was none of these. At Forest Hills for the first time...
Like other Quakers, unaccustomed to the light of publicity, he was afterwards upset .to see his diplomatic slip in print. Two of Japan's 700 Friends talked to reporters before the press agent of the conference, nervous John Reich of the Friends Service Committee, could stop them. Said Quaker Seiju Hirakawa: "The present invasion of China by Japan is motivated by a militaristic clique which is trying to protect the Manchukuo experiment ... a colossal failure. Ninety per cent of Japan is against the present undeclared war. . . ." Said Ryumei Yamano: ''In Japan we have no freedom of speech...