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Word: japanism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manufacturers may still sell military planes to foreign powers, but few first-class customers will take two-year-old models. U.S. military plane exports in the last six months: Argentina, $285,000; China, $948,012; Mexico, $299,904; Russia; $117,676; Brazil, $9,600; Holland $1,162,600; Japan, $63,000; Ecuador, $125,550; Honduras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Air Pressure | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...Japan, officials were reticent but beaming. So good a neighbor as President Roosevelt, they opined, is unlikely to interfere with the aspirations of Japan in China, whereas under President Hoover there was inaugurated the "Stimson Doctrine" which even now persists among the Great Powers and has blocked Japan from obtaining recognition for her puppet empire Manchukuo. Because they still hate Hoover & Stimson, Japanese particularly like Roosevelt & Hull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: World Pleased | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

When news of this reached Vice Admiral Sir Charles James Colebrooke Little, Commander-in-Chief of the China Squadron at Shanghai, he was so incensed that he postponed a scheduled trip to Japan. In London, news of the Japanese provocation at Keelung was kept secret long after the facts were known at the British Admiralty, and not a single Japanese newsorgan carried so much as a line on the Keelung ordeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Ordeal by Pen | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...Pearl Island, Toba Harbor, Japan, Pearl Tycoon Kokichi Mikimoto celebrated a memorial service for hundreds of millions of "souls" departed from "martyred" oysters, then rehearsed his own funeral service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

Next to our native land, Japan seems to have the wheels spinning in a more orderly manner than eleswhere. No vulgar civil wars disturb the little yellow men, one of whom has just won a contest by raising a beard five inches longer than he is, far surpassing both of the Smith Brothers. This remarkable personification of Japanese resource carries his growth in a handbag when he goes walking, so as not to sully the end. So far from being confused, he seems to have a very highly developed philosophy of life. And with a beard like that, he must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off Key | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

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