Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Incidentally, just before I left Japan one of the sumo wrestlers said he was retiring from the sumo ring to study boxing and become the world's champion. Keep your eyes open for this man, he is bigger than Primo Camera...
Only since 1925 has Japan had what passes in the Empire for "universal manhood suffrage." Last week a few dainty Japanese feminists toddled about the larger cities exhorting men to "Vote, Please!" and wearing scarfs reading not "Votes for Women" but "Pure Election...
...handed by one local official in their village half a dozen different appeals. By this new system, as an eminent Japanese remarked, "Our elections have been purged of much bribery and corruption and of all political importance." This overstatement did not take account of the fact that Japan's dominant militarists are by & large against the Rich, whom they consider chicken-hearted profiteers, and for the Poor, in whom they fancy reside sterling Japanese virtues. If that be radicalism, then the militarists, although they are the world's most violent reactionaries in matters of Japanese Emperor-worship...
...change must be slow in coming to a parliamentary system so formalized and impotent as Japan's. Nevertheless, it has been suddenly observed in recent weeks that Japan's few rabble-rousing proletarian candidates were actually drawing audiences of respectable size. As the slow Japanese counting of votes began, a big surprise broke last week when the previously minuscule Social Masses Party was seen to have won 18 seats in the new Diet, all of which will be occupied by thoroughgoing rabble-rousers who can make Japanese politics lively if they dare...
...journeyed to Japan and became so entranced with the country that he cancelled his contract with Harper Brothers and took up teaching. After several years, Hearn married a Japanese Samuri woman and became a Japanese citizen by adoption into his wife's family...