Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Basic readjustment of Chino-Japanese relations whereby we aim to bring about the cessation by China of all unfriendly acts and measures and her active and effective collaboration with Japan...
...accurate, a most important disclosure. "The Chinese Government," he announced, "not only has indicated its concurrence with all our views but proposed recently to open negotiations on Chino-Japanese rapprochement along the lines stated above." His Excellency also announced that if China should now sign on the dotted line Japan would "extend to her our moral and material support for her advancement." Added he: "We sincerely hope to smooth the progress of the newly established Commonwealth of the Philip-pines." In the largest World sphere, Mr. Hirota also announced Japan's desire to be helpful. After recalling that...
After this great inspirational speech Japan's Parliament was dissolved by Imperial Order and a general election set for Feb. 20. The Home Ministry, commonly said in Japan to "make the election," estimated cheerily that the two great civilian parties, the Seiyukai and the Minseito, will each win approximately the same number of seats, and that the balance of power will be held by the militarists' small and comparatively new Showakai Party. Although not exactly translatable, Showakai is a Japanese word strongly implying that it is the Party's divinely appointed duty to usher...
...civilization is a dinosaur civilization. If it is to survive it must undergo change. Religious bodies must work together in co-operative action.-Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, No. 1 Christian of Japan. If the Church involves itself with any dogmatic statements about social security, it will not only prove a failure but the Church will jail too, and lose its entity.- Dean Wallace Brett Donham of Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration. A study of recently printed salaries almost makes one a Communist or a Socialist.-Rev. Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner of Manhattan...
...Manhattan last week Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa began a four-day visit in which he was to speak 17 times. To interviewers Japan's great Christian explained that his causes, labor organization and cooperatives, represent "practical Christianity." Exulted the Christian Century: "It is about as certain as anything can be that as soon as the business forces of the country wake up to what is happening with this growth of church interest in co-operatives they will loose a blast which will make their complaint against Roosevelt's mild economic experimentalism sound like a Schumann-Heink lullaby...