Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oslo, where Trotsky was of course guarded at all times by Norwegian secret servicemen to prevent his fomenting plots, and conferred with the Great Exile in detail. Red Trotsky & Nazi Hess were supposed to have agreed that, after Stalin had been assassinated, Germany was to get the Ukraine and Japan Eastern Siberia, with the headline-making addition last week that Japan be given the island of Sakhalin from which she would get "oil for the Japanese Navy to make war on America."Red Romm, A charge had been made by Prosecutor Vishinsky that many letters between Radek and Trotsky were...
Ever since the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in 1931, which was precipitated by Japan's Army leaders in defiance of the Cabinet's more conciliatory policy (TIME, Sept. 28, 1931 et seq.}, the spunky Military have successfully taken the offensive against Japan's civilian government. A renascence of sword-flourishing nationalism, fostered by the Army leaders has swept over Japan and has just been given still more punch by the Japanese-German agreement to fight Communism (TIME, Dec. 7) and by the even more recent Japanese-Italian accord in which Japan recognized Mussolini's conquest...
...called upon Kazushige Ugaki, retired Army General and onetime Governor-General of Korea, to form a new Cabinet. Preceding this grim political struggle in Tokyo was a sudden and at first mysterious halting of exchange transactions which tied up millions of yen in Tokyo and slowed up business with Japan all over the world for some 13 days. The London market had comparatively little difficulty in liquidating" its yen contracts, but Washington was perplexed and anxious because U. S. markets were badly clogged. Middle of the week the Governor of the Bank of Japan, Eigo Fukai, "explained" that...
...Some 1912 luminaries who failed a Benchley citation: onetime Securities & Exchange Commissioner Joseph Patrick Kennedy, New York's former Republican State Chairman William Kingsland Macy, Massachusetts' Representative Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth, Author Frederick Lewis Allen (Only Yesterday), New York University's Richard Offner, expert on Florentine Art, Japan's steamship tycoon Ryozo Asano, the New York Times's Science News Editor William L. ("Bill") Laurence...
...possible conflicts in the Far East, Steiger contends that a war between Japan and China is more likely than one between Japan and Russia. The speaker listed two reasons for this: Japan is not certain that she can defeat Russia; and Japan is afraid that Russia will send over an air fleet and destroy her cities...