Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alarm over the North China area larger than Ethiopia which Japan is trying to detach from China's Nanking Government by military intimidation and a "war without battles'' (TIME, Dec. 9) last week brought Chinese War Minister General Ho Ying-chin hotfoot to Peiping. After heroic haggling with the resident Japanese militarists, General Ho was expected to announce this week a "new status" for North China, ambiguous and unsatisfactory to all concerned. Fresh Japanese brandishing of Might was expected to follow...
...Naval Conference which all oracles have doomed to fail in attaining its objective: limitation of naval armament. Impressive to behold was the majority of seven nations (Great Britain, Canada, India, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and the Irish Free State) dwarfing physically the minority of four (U. S., Japan, France and Italy...
...Locarno Room, after Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin had strewed a few autumn leaves of noncommittal oratory, proceedings opened with this double-barreled deadlock: 1) Japanese Chief Delegate Admiral Osami Nagano ultimatumed that nothing else was to be discussed until naval parity was conceded to Japan. Britain counted on the U. S. to bear the brunt of insisting that the 5-5-3 ratio be maintained with Japan at the short end. 2) Italy, while expecting 5-5-3 to dynamite the conference, was adamant in her standing demand for naval parity with France, which in turn maintained her standing refusal...
Attempting to set some sort of ball rolling, Mr. Davis proposed, on behalf of President Roosevelt, a 20% reduction of all navies. Instantly Admiral Nagano announced that Japan rejects this proposal...
Born. To Empress Nagako of Japan and Emperor Hirohito, a son; in Tokyo...