Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...treaty signed between Great Britain, France and the United States bristles with so many escape clauses that it has relatively little meaning. Without the adherence of Italy, a nation which merely listened, or Japan, a nation which "took a walk" from the Conference the pact, however drawn, could give few assurances of naval stability. When the treaty is examined, its weakness is obvious. quantitative limitations there are none, the restrictions merely apply to the size of battleships, and not in any way to the number...
After graduating from college and the Law School in 1911, Gregg practiced law with a well-known Boston firm. He later traveled around the world in the capacity of private secretary. During this trip he spent considerable time in India, China, and Japan. Since 1915 he has been working on labor relations with many institutions, sometimes for employers and again for the working side of the question...
Died. Count Yasuya Uchida, 70, onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U. S., Austria, Russia, four times Japan's Foreign Minister; of pneumonia; in Tokyo. He was recalled from retirement, put in charge of the Japanese Foreign Office for the last time in 1932, superintended Japan's withdrawal from the League, its seizure of Manchuria...
...novels there have been few authentic ones laid in Japan, fewer that go beyond the surface strangeness played upon in such books as Carl Fallas' The Wooden Pillow (TIME, Jan. 20). The appearance last week of a first novel by a young Westerner which gave evidence of a deeper understanding of modern Japan was therefore of more than passing importance...
...feeling increases between Yamano, who still desires Kimi, and his son, who can only resent without understanding his father's prohibition of further visits to her. In the end the traditional power of the family and the apparently hopeless future for Shigeo's type of liberalism in Japan prevail over the love of the young people, and instead of risking marriage they commit suicide together...