Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...naval policy and our national appropriations should have received such scant attention in the American newspapers is therefore most surprising. For not only would such a plan bring about a tight rapprochement between Great Britain and the United States, especially in Far Eastern waters, with unpredictable reactions from Japan; but also the present national appropriations for building up the navy toward treaty strength would be vitally affected...
...changed with Japan's brusque withdrawal from the Conference (TIME, Jan. 27), and with Britain's authorization to Germany to violate the naval clauses of the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, June 24) and construct a major Nazi Fleet. Last week, since neither Germany nor Japan was sitting in at the London Conference, its proceedings were illusory. The object was to agree solemnly upon something of a high sounding nature which would permit the delegates to adjourn without too great an appearance of frustration. For this purpose the plan of Lord Monsell showed promise. It was gravely adopted...
...fringed apron and an enormous belt made of twisted straw and paper streamers, looks as if he were proud of having just swallowed a medicine ball. He is the yokozuna (champion) of Japanese sumo (wrestling). Fortnight ago in Tokyo, some 10,000 yapping devotees of Japan's most ancient & honorable sport saw him attain this distinction in the final of the semi-annual national tournament in the Kokugi-kan amphitheatre. Spry little Musashiyama, defending yokozuna, ten years younger than Tama-nishiki and 100 lb. lighter, gave a miserable account of himself from the start of the ten-day round...
...last 300 years,. Japan's professional wrestlers have been divided into two groups-East and West. Most of the year, Easts and Wests tour the country giving exhibitions, developing young sumo addicts. Each group has its own ranking champion, a score or more competent subordinates, a squad of promising novices who are fed underdone beefsteak, trained to lift huge boulders, finally taught the 48 tricks & dodges of sumo. Twice a year a national tournament is held in the Kokugi-kan to determine by round robin the best wrestlers of each group, and the grand champion. Object of sumo...
...problems involved in Russia's offensive expansion to the cast enable him to vivify the difficulties of assimilating under central control peoples who are racially different, and who speak 183 different dialects. Although Russia is emphasized, much attention is given to the "Middle East bloc", to China, and to Japan. Personally convinced that world politics of the next century hinge on Asia, he instills his personal enthusiasm into his audience...