Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Christianity, Buddhism includes many a sect. One of the more potent is the Jodo-shinshu sect, founded in Japan 700 years ago. Month ago in the Hompa Hongwanji Temple in Kyoto, Japan, Abbot Otani, head of the sect, blessed a two-foot image of Lord Buddha, carved of wood and covered with eight layers of gold leaf. Last week an envoy of Abbot Otani arrived in San Francisco with the image, turned it over to Rinban, or Bishop, Kenju Masuyama, the Occidental-looking head of some 50,000 U. S. members of the Jodo-shinshu sect...
...nation had stood through all its history. Furthermore, they declaimed, it would not bring peace, but war. Since only two nations have navies big enough to do a cash & carry business with the U. S., this nation would inevitably become an ally of Great Britain in the Atlantic, Japan in the Pacific. Stirred to wrath and driven to desperation, their antagonists, boomed Senator Borah, might well send air armadas to bomb U. S. ports...
...order all its ships in all parts of the world to hoist the Rising Sun flag while the Emperor was reviewing the Grand Fleet." This inconveniences Emperor Hirohito who intends that the Heian Maru, off which the strikers also walked, shall carry his brother Prince Chichibu to represent Japan at the Coronation in London. To be sure the strikers know this well enough, were only slyly holding up the N.Y.K. for higher pay and other inducements...
Furthermore, Japan had gained a potent friend in hostile business territory. How valuable this friendship might prove was indicated last week when Dr. Murchison urged U. S. importers to handle Japanese quota goods "without hesitation...
...MARCH OF JAPAN-Edgar Lajtha-Stokes ($3). A useful primer on still-unfamiliar Japan, her social, political and economic paradoxes, by an observant Hungarian journalist. Illustrated with photographs...