Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eastern coast of Shantung peninsula in northeast China is the city of Tsingtao. There last week 36,000 Chinese workers were locked out of nine Japanese-owned textile mills. Immediately 800 fully-armed Japanese marines landed at Tsingtao on the pretext of "safeguarding Japan's interests." rampaged all over the seaport, arrested three prominent Chinese, raided the Chinese Nationalist Party headquarters, and seized documents...
...form of economic imperialism which has aroused bitterness and suspicion within the nations involved. This antipathy has had its disastrous results in the form of foreign domination of the South American markets and the consequent loss of a huge field for exploitation to American producers. Great Britain, Germany, Japan--all have capitalized on this aversion and have built up strong traditions of trade in the past ten years; tradition which will be hard to overcome...
...United States is to develop as she has so far. South America represents a gold-mine for American interests, and this mine has scarcely been tapped. Now, with war looming on the European horizon, with England's "Royal salesman" embroiled in a messy scandal and with internecine strife besetting Japan, the stage is set for an immediate American entry into the Pan-American economic scene. The present policy of reciprocal trade agreements has not only brought a great measure of prosperity to formerly impoverished South-American states, as well as to ourselves, but has created a feeling of tangible...
...Japan had most certainly made a red-hot enemy of the Reds of Russia last week, and European observers were inclined to think that intuitive Adolf Hitler had in this deal outsmarted the Imperial Government of the Son of Heaven. Japan already has bitten off in China all she can effectively chew, and only last week the Soviet Union finally completed their duplicate "behind the mountains'' strategic railway paralleling the Trans-Siberian and permitting Russia more effectively than ever before to fight Japan...
...years ago when the Rochester zoo elephant died, Ward's bought the carcass, macerated and stripped off the flesh, sold the skeleton piecemeal. .The best human skeletons now come from Mexico since he U. S. S. R. has forbidden their exportation. Inferior ones are bought from India and Japan...