Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...AntiCommunist military operations should be stopped and all the country's guns should be directed against Japan...
...Official" Program of Kidnapper Chang was as follows (full text): "The Central [Nanking] Government [of China] has not been sincere in carrying out resistance against Japan. This has been shown by lengthy negotiations and the suppression of patriotic movements. So we must gather our forces, overthrow the Central Government and expedite the national salvation...
...Japan Listens. If any such policy as the above had been broadcast to the Chinese people by their Government, except as a policy urged by a Chinese kidnapper meriting worse than death, it would have had to be considered in Tokyo by every Japanese from the Emperor down as the most extreme Chinese provocation and invitation...
This was clear enough to anyone who recalls what Japan has been putting over on China in recent years. In Shanghai the mere suspicion that a Chinese had thrown a pear core out the window of a restaurant at a Japanese sailor was taken by Japan as an excuse to land hundreds of marines, exact abject apologies from Chinese authorities (TIME, Oct. 5), and even now the Chinese restaurant proprietor is forced to call every day upon the Japanese marine commander in Shanghai and report what progress is being made in catching the Chinese thrower of that pear core...
...pear core incident is palatable news in any language, but only with the tedious figures of economists is it possible to show that Japan has been exacting for years from China concession after concession involving millions if not billions in tariff favors. The state railways of the Chinese Dictator have in certain instances run each day and for as many months as required, a special "smugglers' freight car" for the convenience of Japanese and Koreans engaged in systematically evading the customs duties of North China. One can buy Japanese goods openly in China today at prices less than...