Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Occidentals are confused when Japan enlarges her territory because at such times the Japanese Army & Navy always quarrel furiously with the Premier and civilian Cabinet members. Only after the hubbub has subsided does it once more appear that all Japanese are patriots and that the Empire has been enlarged by procedure so obscure that no Occidental knows exactly which Japanese to blame...
...openly threatened to hurl in their troops at any such "Chinese provocation" and since they did not hurl them last week, Chinese enjoyed briefly a feeling of exhilaration. Then Ambassador Ariyoshi bustled around, hinting to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek that the discomfited Japanese Army clique is so powerful that Japan's civilian Cabinet members have to be careful. After much haggling the Ambassador emerged to whisper to Japanese correspondents that Generalissimo Chiang, while opposing secession of the five provinces in the strongest terms, had promised a "compromise...
Reasons for Japan's caution last week were two: 1) it already controls North China in all but externals; 2) it wants an airtight technical case against Nanking, to avoid any chance that the League of Nations will declare against Japan the sanctions tested out on Italy...
Last week Japan and the Nanking Government angled for the war lords of North China with counter bribes, appeals and threats. Japan appeared to land two at once. Sung Cheh-yuan, Chinese commandant of the Peiping and Tientsin garrisons, and Yin Ju-keng, commissioner of the demilitarized zone in North China, who obligingly sent out a general telegram demanding autonomy for North China. Doubtful Japanese catches were Chahar's Governor Hsiao Chen-yung and Suiyuan's Governor Fu Tso-yi. The Chinese Government meanwhile appeared to land Shang Chen, Governor of Hopei. It went on angling hopefully...
...Japan last week moved 5,000 troops to Shanhaikwan on the Manchukuoan North China border, 10,000 to Chinchow, rolled up trains loaded with tanks, planes, horses. In retort, Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek advanced "toward" North China 300,000 Chinese troops, hoping to overawe the North China war lords...