Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wholly in vain that the high-strung leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, Laborite Major Clement Attlee, barked like a terrier at St. Bernard Baldwin: "The Mediterranean has been abandoned to the Fascist State! The Far East has been abandoned to Japan! What is left? The policy of this Government has not brought us nearer to Peace, but closer and closer...
Fabrizio, still called in the family "Little Chink.'' Count Ciano, as Italian Consul General in Shanghai, became President of the League of Nations Commission which inquired into Japan's bombardment of Shanghai at a time when "Little Chink" was a babe of five months. Promoted to Minister to China, the Count was sent to the London Economic Conference and. before President Roosevelt wrecked it, Ciano obscurely obtained the Conference's only achievement, an adjustment of Italy's Boxer Rebellion indemnity claims on China to the satisfaction of the Great Powers...
...general harmony. Lastly, and most pertinent today is the aggressive Eastern policy of building a navy "second to none"; sending the fleet on threatening maneuvers in the Pacific; building forts; and generally using swash-buckling tactics of the approved Prussian model; all, of course, with intention of contributing to Japan's tranquillity...
...style Thought Control Offices, several hundred Japanese instructors will gravely impart to Japanese subjects in batches what they are to think and are not to think. In Japan this is only a re-introduction of such measures as were taken in 1649 when the State issued an edict minutely instructing peasants upon such points as the imperative necessity of divorcing a gadabout wife. Since 1928, police have arrested some 60,000 Japanese on the charge of "thinking Dangerous Thoughts." The 22 Thought Control Offices came as a kind of relief, providing centres more comfortable than jails in which docile Japanese...
...Slightly indisposed," Emperor Hirohito of Japan suspended the nation's autumn harvest thanksgiving ritual at which he was expected to offer rice to the Gods of the Imperial Sanctuary...