Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flats and pestilential swamps on the elbow bend of the Whangpoo River. Here separate concessions were established by Britain, the U. S., France. The French Concession has remained a separate entity, the other two combined in an International Settlement governed by a mixed commission to which other nations, including Japan, were later admitted...
...divide their strength by taking on another battle in Shanghai. Whether the navy's Shanghai move was a blunder, or whether the Japanese demands were a bluff which the Chinese called-perhaps more out of excitement than shrewdness-the result was a war big enough to endanger Japan's precarious economic structure. For the longer the war lasts, the greater, almost inevitably, will be Chinese defeats, but the greater also the danger of economic collapse in Japan...
Yonai. Smack next to the Prime Minister of Japan on such dress-shirt occasions as the formal opening of Parliament, sit the Minister of the Navy and the Minister of War. Other Cabinet officers form no more than a decorative background of gold lace. Since last February Japan's Navy Minister has been Admiral Mitsuniasa Yonai, or more formally Yoniuchi-a descendant of the samurai, member of the blue-blooded Satsuma clan and grandson of the extremely wealthy Baron Kentaro Okuma, developer of the South Manchuria Railway...
...Tsushima Strait. Affable with junior officers he is extremely popular in the service. More important for the present war, there is probably no Japanese flag officer who knows more about China and the China coast. Admiral Yonai drinks, but sparingly, even at the Gargantuan drinking bouts for which Japan is famous. His chief hobby is calligraphy; drawing intricate Chinese characters on rice paper with a camel's hair brush, a sport that requires great steadiness of hand. His fine Japanese hand had its work cut out fortnight ago when Emperor Hirohito called him in and handed him the problem...
...Chinese city. A morning's load of 500, guarded by British and U.S. armored cars got safely through. The rest, 6,500 were held by Japanese troops. Though many of the prisoners were juvenile offendors 12 to 16 years old, many of the others were dope addicts, Japan insisted that almost all the prisoners were being pressed into the Chinese ranks...