Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...declared by poster, China declared it last week with gaudy and gigantic stickers pasted up all over Nanking showing Generalissimo Chiang leaping to the top of China's Great Wall and beckoning with drawn sword for a Chinese army to follow him over the wall and into Japan's Manchukuo. The Christian birthday cake of the Dictator carried not 50 candles but replicas of 50 foreign-built bombing planes of the latest type which are the Chinese people's birthday present to Chiang Kaishek. Coolies have given coppers, bankers silver bars, and so much money was collected...
...shan; Governor General Fu Tso-yi, provincial chairman of Suiyan; and the latest admirable and exemplary governor produced by unpredictable China, General Han Fu-chu of Shantung.* They were said by Nanking officials to have promised the Dictator they would stand by him in case of war with Japan...
...subject of a brilliant biography, The Last Empress by His Excellency Daniele Vare who was then an Italian legation official at Peking (Doubleday, Doran, $3). *Shantung's previous satrap "The Monster," the late notorious General Chang Tsung-chang, overtaxed and robbed the province into starvation. He escaped to Japan with a fortune of millions, murdered a Chinese prince who flirted with one of his concubines, was eventually assassinated when he returned to Shantung seeking further loot. Since 1930 exemplary General Han has built 4,000 miles of motor roads in Shantung, set running 400 buses, installed a provincial telephone...
...Suicides and murders by means of potassium cyanide in Japan are increasing. Chemist Matsutaro Nishida of Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Board announced discovery of a substance which, if mixed with the poison, would emit an odor so foul that it would deter would-be suicides from drinking it, warn victims of murder-plotters...
Anthropologists have long suspected that in Japan twins are born less frequently than among whites. Confirmation has been difficult because Japanese mothers believe that to bear more than one child at a time is a bestial act, frequently try to hide multiple births by separate registry of offspring, even by infanticide. Investigators Taku Komai and Goro Fukuoka of Kyoto Imperial University pierced this veil of obscurantism, sifted hospital figures and midwives' records, found that Japanese twins are indeed scarce: One pair in 160 births, as against one in 87 among U. S. whites...