Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world, the Union, founded by British and French parliamentarians in 1888 takes itself quite seriously, claims to have germinated the idea of The Permanent Court of International Justice, the League of Nations. Press Agent Robinet de Clery ballyhoos the Union as a more universal institution than the League, because Japan and the U. S., League nonmembers, and totalitarian Italy which finds the League distasteful, regularly send delegates. Germany and Soviet Russia, however, did not attend...
...gaudy blue & gold dress uniform of a Field Marshal, the owl-eyed Son of Heaven, Hirohito, Emperor of Japan last week addressed his parliament from the Throne. Assembled for an emergency session, the legislators were expected to vote an additional $592,000,000 for a war that has already cost Japan $145,000,000. Said the Emperor...
...Japan is always solicitous to obtain peace in East Asia by means of mutual co-operation and mutual prosperity with China. It is to be regretted that China has failed to understand the true intentions of Japan. China has indulged in provocations which precipitated the present incident. Japan's soldiers now are displaying devotion to their country by overcoming all difficulties. These operations are intended only to persuade China to reconsider her course and thereby re-establish the peace of East Asia. It is to be hoped that all people of Japan, in view of the situation, will unite...
Meantime the Soviet Union signed a treaty with China promising that neither would aid an enemy attacking the other. Though this did not commit the Soviet to sending help to China it was a slap in Japan's eye and Japan could not but suspect "secret clauses" which might eventually bring Russia into the war. Entirely bloodless but saddest incident of the week for Japan was the announcement that since the war began she has had to export over $65,000,000 worth of gold. This brought her slender gold reserve down to a still slenderer...
...returning from a trip to Alaska, Owney trotted up the gangplank of the steamship Victoria, bound for Japan. There, the Emperor decorated him with a medal. Owney continued around the world by way of the Suez Canal and the Azores. All along the way he was met by bigwigs who awarded him medals. In Manhattan he remained only a few hours before he was whisked onto a westbound mail car. When he arrived in Tacoma, Wash., Owney had traveled round the world in 132 days. So in San Francisco, when he somehow got into a bench show with a houseful...