Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt in his State of the Union address took cracks at other nations without mentioning their names (TIME, Jan. 13). Premier Molotov named Italy as "imperialistic," named Poland as "interested in expansion," scored Japan and Germany for "aggressive intentions" and shouted: "The Nazis are getting ready to strike! Germany is literally a military camp and endangers the whole of Europe...
...smart way to get a book published well and cheaply is to hand the manuscript to Tokyo's Hokuseido Press which specializes in English editions of Lafcadio Hearn. Last week packing cases from Japan were opened in New York by G. E. Stechert & Co., Agents, and soon Manhattan literary circles buzzed excitedly over Adventures in Far Eastern Journalism by Henry George Wandesforde Woodhead, the British editor & publisher of Shanghai's monthly Oriental Affairs...
Thus His Majesty the Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo is happy in holding the thought that he was not set up by Japan as a puppet, but restored by loyal Chinese to a throne in the realm of his Manchu forefathers-a happy thought flatly contradicted by the facts...
When Grier, a young Englishman on his travels, arrived in Japan, Tokyo's streets were still full of rickshas. Though Japan had beaten Russia and was beginning to emulate the West in other ways, its civilization was still essentially Oriental. Grier found it a quaint, delightful country. Its manners charmed, its emotions baffled, its women fascinated him. To his discovery that "in their attitude to sex the Japanese are a millennium ahead," a skeptical fellow-foreigner retorted that emotionally they were an incarnation behind. Grier could not be sure, set himself to solve the puzzle by falling in love...
...Author. Big-nosed, sleepy-eyed, bespectacled Carl Fallas is 50. At 15 he went to work in a newspaper office in Manchester, chucked his job after six years to go to the East, traveled 50,000 miles in five years. One of these years he spent quietly, observantly in Japan. Stranded in San Francisco, he shipped aboard a windjammer, worked his 20,000-mile passage around Cape Horn to Liverpool. The World War took him as a private, left him a gassed officer. After the Armistice he went back to journalism. Last Christmas he left Fleet Street for good, went...