Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these circumstances, and especially since Dictator Chiang has dissolved in North China all local branches of the Nanking Government's own political party at the behest of Japan (TIME, Nov. 9), the Tokyo Cabinet last week would have been naive had they not listened with incredulity and anger to what was coming through the Nanking censor. Angry Japan (and Japan was also puzzled) took the precaution of ordering impressive Japanese military units in North China to move slowly, tentatively down the railway toward Nanking...
Japanese incredulity was based on years of painful experience in which it nearly always turns out that Chinese outsmart Japanese until the sons of Nippon bring up overwhelming force. Premier Koki Hirota of Japan has just had his Cabinet publicly spanked by the Privy Council for having baited Stalin and made a pact with Hitler (TIME. Dec. 7). Last week Mr. Hirota was able to advise the Son of Heaven that in China events were transpiring which could only mean that the Japanese Cabinet had been right and the Privy Council wrong. Nearly all Japanese were entirely convinced that what...
...Young Marshal, as his public demands indicated fortnight ago required as hls personal profit out of the transaction that China reconquer and restore to him his Empire, or equivalent. This personal demand was inextricably mixed up with the issue of Chinese national policy vis-à-vis Japan...
Dictator Chiang has for so many years played such a tedious waiting game that the Young Marshal, when he publicly demanded as part of the "ransom" fortnight ago that the Nanking Government speed up and declare war on Japan, was voicing the aspiration of millions of Chinese The announced policy of the kidnapper is so exceedingly popular-even if it is an ex-dope's not too bright idea-that almost every Chinese inevitably must be more or less drawn to it, even Dictator Chian" who knows that he cannot procrastinate forever...
...Chinese and it was masterly to put the whole program of war with Japan out officially from Nanking last week and see what would happen, especially what Japan would do. Japan had done so little up to this week, and Nanking had received so many telegrams of passionate loyalty to the Government from so many outlying Chinese military satraps that the kidnapping was going fine, even if somebody should get killed...