Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Somewhat pointedly, the U. S. State Department discouraged attendance at the Quezon inaugural of "foreign delegations," on the ground that the Philippines were not yet autonomous. But the Tokyo Yomiuri last week felicitated the Commonwealth "especially because the Philippines can easily be reached by air from Japan and the prospects of Japanese-Philippine trade are bright...
...Japan last week sparred cautiously for a new body-hold on China. The Japanese high command were with their Emperor Hirohito watching autumn maneuvers at Kyushu. The Chinese high command were, with the greatest unanimity ever seen in China, at the Kuomintang Party Conference in Nanking. The Nanking Government plumed themselves on their brilliance in having called in all silver coin and bullion (TIME, Nov. 11), thus forcing the Japanese-dominated banks of North China to declare for either Japan or China. Last week Japanese Army men warned the North China banks not to deliver the silver to Nanking. Slowly...
Profound is the caution with which Japan has moved. There has been an "incident," the murder of a "Japanese marine in uniform" in Shanghai (TIME, Nov. 18). and this touched off other incidents last week as Chinese all over China roused one another against the Japanese menace. Mobs in Shanghai stoned Japanese stores and 150,000 Chinese fled the Chinese quarter of Shanghai into the International Settlement, ruled by Occidentals under a U. S. citizen. Secretary General Stirling Fessenden of the Shanghai Municipal Council. What chiefly irritated Japanese last week was the curt announcement of the Occidental police...
...matter of fact that England is protecting her imperial brood. If direct evidence is not enough, then indirect evidence comes to reinforce the verdict. When Japan had begun its Manchurain adventure, England remained sublimely all of to the many pleas for naval action against the aggressor. Now in parallel circumstances the lordly power takes measures of intimidation and oppression against the new aggressor, and induces a large part of the rest of the world to join in righteous indignation. No explanation other than imperial interest can begin to account for these merry-go-round tactics...
...Japan's most potent Jingo, Lieut.-General Sadao Araki, onetime War Minister and boss of the Army's "Ginger Group," had glorious news last week from Shanghai where a Japanese squadron is commanded by his brother Rear Admiral Sadasuke Araki. The glorious news: somebody had murdered a Japanese Marine in full uniform near the Japanese Naval headquarters. At this news in utter panic rich & poor Chinese alike fled from Chapei in the native quarter of Shanghai to the International Settlement which proved safe in 1932 when the Japanese blew Chapei to bloody smithereens. If the Araki Brothers were...