Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Siam, James M. Andrews '29, associate in Anthropology at the Peabody Museum, reported a trend toward commercial development in that small kingdom, which has hitherto devoted itself to agriculture. He attributed this trend to the need of Siam to hold its own against the recent high-speed industrialization of Japan...
...first perceived by Japanese educators and was taught for 29 years not only by Dr. Minobe but by other professors supervised by the Ministry of Education. Suddenly the mystic fanaticism, the blind patriotism and the excruciating reverence for the symbolic EMPEROR, in whom Japanese really worship Japan, exploded (TIME, March 18, 1935 et seq.), and Dr. Minobe was forced out of the Imperial University. He resigned from the House of Peers and vanished into his home outside which the Government stationed an unremitting police guard...
...Seiyukai candidates in these circumstances to campaign against the Government mainly with the charge that it had not sufficiently punished a man for writing that His Majesty is the supreme organ of the Japanese State was arrant bluff & nonsense-even in Japan. No Japanese can successfully reduce to writing what the status of the Emperor is, any more than a Christian can be precise on the status of God. As the votes were being counted last week, two Japanese armed with a letter apparently signed by a magistrate got past Dr. Minobe's police guards, chased the savant...
Savants of Japan trace Imperial Poem Reading through 1,000 years of vicissitudes fascinating to explore. The present Emperor is the 124th in direct line and the major crises of Imperial Poem Reading may be said to have been weathered in the reigns of the 62nd, the 83rd, the 103rd and the 122nd. It was Emperor Meiji, grandfather of the present Emperor, who dealt masterfully with the insurgence of Japanese commoners when they vigorously although reverently beseeched that Imperial Poem Reading should depart from the immemorial tradition that no poems were ever read to the Son of Heaven except those...
Final Count. Although the reading of commoners' poems to the Emperor is about as near democracy as the Empire ever gets, Japanese election returns were not utterly devoid of meaning. The dominant militarists remained Japan's actual rulers last week, but the final count showed that the Minseito Party, favored by the Government, had ousted the strong Seiyukai Party from first place. Notably President Kisaburo Suzuki of the Seiyukai Party himself failed to win his old seat. In all, the Minseito won 205 seats and the Seiyukai 174. This meant no more and no less than that, when...