Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week aboard the Empress of Japan, placidly ploughing across the China Sea to Hongkong, Commonwealth-President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines began to receive a steady stream of wireless reports. Before the day was out he had proclaimed a "state of calamity," had issued a decree appropriating $500,000 from the Commonwealth's scanty treasury for emergency relief. A South Pacific typhoon had just caused one of the worst catastrophes in Philippine history...
...Tokyo, meanwhile, Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita quietly slipped over Japan's recognition of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia, figuring that last week the British certainly would not notice. In Tokyo an individual carrying dynamite, a razor-edged spear and a fistful of petitions confessed: "For three days I have been try ing to kill the Premier." Simultaneously in Japanese political circles the more or less gagged Parliament was reported so restive at the risks the Cabinet is running with its pro-German and pro-Italian pacts (TIME. Dec. 7) and its seizure of Tsingtao, that Japan...
Fourteen years ago Margaret Sanger made a trip to Japan where she preached birth control. Just how memorable this 1922 visitation was became evident last week when the editors of Tokyo's big Nichi Nichi thus headlined a preposterous dispatch about a Chinese woman giving birth to decuplets: MRS. SANGER WILL BE ASHAMED...
Elected when his name was left on the ballot by error after he had refused to be a candidate, onetime (1917-21) U. S. Ambassador to Japan Roland Sletor Morris, 62, resigned as Democratic Presidential elector from Pennsylvania "to make way for the younger...
...SHORT HISTORY OF THE FUTURE- John Langdon-Davies - Dodd, Mead ($3). A prophet with a scientific back-ground and liberal convictions. John Langdon-Davies (Man and His Universe) sees a confused future in which Japan and Germany fight Russia (but not in the next three years), the U. S. adopts fascism, Britain remains democratic. He sees "one race in the world, with a pale, coffee-coloured skin, mongoloid eyes, rather shorter than the average Englishman of today...