Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...JAPAN "Remember the Panay...
Since both Japan and conquered areas of China were neutral with regard to Europe's war, said the lawyers, they had a perfect right to ask belligerents (Great Britain and France) to withdraw all military and naval posts...
...Washington Japan's Christian Ambassador Kensuke Horinouchi admitted to newsmen that his country had given Britain and France "friendly advice" to go home. This was because they were at war. Then the Ambassador casually played his ace. The U. S. is not at war. The U. S. and Japan should be friendly. It was too bad, he said, that since denunciation of the U. S.-Japanese trade treaty of 1911 there would soon be no commercial arrangements between the two countries...
...home in Tokyo, Ambassador Horinouchi's Embassy counselor, big, pleasantly pompous Yakicniro Suma, complemented his chief's words by publicly regretting the U. S. animus, and especially the U. S. Navy's, towards Japan. The toast among young U. S. naval officers, he said, is: "Remember the Panay...
...Assistant Secretary of the Navy). A remarkably huge Japanese-six feet tall and nearly 200 pounds-he lost an eye fighting in Shanghai. In public gatherings he alternately dozes and rolls with silent laughter. His good nature will be hard for U. S. diplomats to resist, but in case Japan has to do the resisting, he is a Navy man: smile for smile, fleet for fleet...