Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese Navy went so far as to land marines in Tokyo and throw them in a protective cordon about the residence of Mr. Keisuke Okada, not because he rated this attention as Premier of Japan but because the Navy considers him one of its own as a retired Japanese Admiral...
Neither the Army nor the Navy was eager to guard the Last of the Genro or "Elder Statesmen," famed Prince Kimmochi Saionji, for many years Japan's great moderator. As the chief councilor of young Emperor Hirohito, venerable Prince Saionji has been for long years Japan's "Maker of Cabinets." Fortnight ago he barely escaped Army assassins. Only policemen last week comprised his guards...
Premier Okada, who by a miracle also escaped assassination by soldiers, continued to hold office ad interim last week while search was conducted for a new Premier & Cabinet. In Japan this is anything but a straightforward process. A subject is commissioned by the Son of Heaven to form a Cabinet, but he cannot do so and become Premier unless he successfully supplicates an Army officer to deign to act as War Minister and a Navy officer to deign to become Naval Minister in his Cabinet...
...will see a bold niches burned into the tablet of hockey records, or whether the team will fizzle through the season a complete dud. Although a prediction as to the season's outcome is as worthless as a weather prediction for Boston based on a recent snow flurry in Japan, a statement of paper potentialities is not wholly beside the point. And Harvard's potentialities are good...
Adolf Hitler in Germany is turning back the centuries toward blood, Wotan, race. Japan has never really turned her centuries forward to 1936. In Russia the worried Bolsheviks consider themselves likely objects of Japanese and German pincers closing upon Russia in simultaneous war from East and West (TIME. Feb. 24). The prostrate Chinese as they scanned the news from Tokyo this week remained particularly prostrate, a comfortable posture in which they await Japanese bankruptcy, Japanese proletarian revolution, Japanese defeat by Russia or the decay of Japanese from temperamental instability in a few hundred or thousand years...