Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everything being ready for the Grand Smash, faultless politeness constrained Admiral Nagano merely to tell journalists that he had written a letter withdrawing Japan from the Conference at 6 p. m. This letter was not delivered to the British Admiralty until about midnight, by which time the Naval Conference had most enjoyably dined & wined with the Lord Mayor of London and the Prince of Wales...
...Admiral had been sent from Tokyo to smash the Conference and he was about to smash the Conference. By so doing he would incur for Japan the supreme risk that her defiance might stir up the Great Powers to do something at last to check the onslaught Japan launched in 1931 when she thumbed her short nose at the Briand-Kellogg Pact, made war her national policy and, withdrawing from the League of Nations in 1933, continued to advance upon China in a predatory campaign still highly successful. Perhaps there was no real risk of the tabby cat powers doing...
...diplomats emerged, sucking their Havanas, the press placards of London carried blood-red headlines. Inside the papers one could gather from small type that Japanese "pride of race" no longer submits to the "inferiority" branded upon Japan by the 5-5-3 naval ratio. Therefore Japan, like race-proud Germany, will hereafter build what war boats she pleases. If steel is to be piled onto the oceans until it is time for blood, Japan nevertheless maintains that in any such naval race everyone else will be as much to blame as Japan...
...small Tsushima Island, Japan. Jiro Tanaka, 21, fell in love with Sumi Chan, 19, a prostitute. Protesting that he could not afford to patronize the "restaurant" where she worked, he took her away and secreted her for a month, under the floor of the bicycle shop where he worked. Summoned to appear for a military examination at his native village, Toyomizu, 75 miles away, and still in love and poor, Tanaka bought a steamship ticket home, packed his girl in a box and took the box aboard. The box was delivered to a lodging house in Hakata, made odd little...
...East" is Thursday's problem. Kendric N. Marshall '21 instructor in Government will speak on "United States in the Orient" in the morning session, which Dean Hindmarsh will discuss "Japan's Foreign Policy" later...