Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan. To London last week from Tokyo British correspondents cabled that the leading Japanese dailies had suddenly started advocating in concert this idea: Japan should forthwith occupy "effete" Britain's territories in the Far East while her attention is monopolized by Egypt and Italy...
...Poor Europe is in a state of neuras-thenia," the Dictator said. "It was not Germany which lost the last War; it was Europe. The United States gained, Japan gained, Russia gained, but Europe lost its recuperative power, the vital force...
Japanese public opinion was fatefully upheaved by disclosures in Manhattan last week, as in London the Naval Conference of the U. S., Britain, Japan, France and Italy resumed its labors after Christmas holidays...
...thought of. Japanese editors last week filled their papers with wrathful recollections of how. after the Washington Conference opened in November 1921, the British delegation professed to be "surprised" when Secretary of State Hughes proposed what afterward was adopted as the 5-5-3 ratio with Japan at the short end and the U. S. and Britain sharing parity. One of the most surprised British delegates was Lord Lee, who, according to the Ochs memorandum, had himself proposed this particular surprise several months previously and had it transmitted to Washington by Publisher Ochs...
...boom sales of Japanese goods last autumn went a trade mission sent by the Osaka branch of the Japan-American Trade Council. Last month the mission returned to Japan, gave an account of its trip which Trans-Pacific, Tokyo English-language newspaper, reported as follows: "Attacks by the Hearst papers were largely responsible for the great success of the trade mission. . . . The mission returned to Yokohama last week on the President Lincoln with the statement that Hearst papers continually criticized Japanese goods as cheap and shoddy. But the people of the United States apparently wanted cheap goods and the [Hearst...