Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Improvement" of Guam would, in the present state of U. S.-Japan relations, be tantamount to fortification of Guam. It would be a provocative gesture even if excused by Japan's alleged fortification of islands in the absorbed mandate groups (Caroline and Marshall)-and particularly when viewed in connection with the British desire to control Japan's approach to the Netherlands Indies and British Malaya (oil, coal, rubber, food). More provocative, Guam is only 1,356 miles from Yokohama...
...York's professionally loud Hamilton Fish cried: "A dagger at the throat of Japan!" Wisconsin's Stephen Bolles said: "A small kumquat in the hand of Japan...
...OSAKA, Japan, Thursday -- More than 50,000 men were massed in the suburb of Hirakata today in an effort to restore order following a munitions dump explosion in which scores of persons were reported killed or injured...
...Shanghai, Chinese patriots played the grimmer game of "shoot the traitors," killed Tcheng Loh, Foreign Minister in Japan's "Reformed" Nanking Government, a former Chinese Minister to France (1920-27). Like many of his colleagues, Tcheng Loh found Nanking too hot for him, some time ago took refuge in the Japanese-controlled quarter of Shanghai, leaving detailed administration in Nanking to his Japanese advisers. Even in Shanghai, however, Japan finds it difficult to protect her creatures. Tcheng Loh was the 52nd victim of political assassination in the Shanghai area since Japanese occupation of the city...
...Hitler's Year One) to $64,500,000 last year, a fall of 17%. During the same period imports from Belgium rose 44%, from Norway 16%, from the United Kingdom 6%. Last year (first full year of the war in China) U. S. imports from Japan fell from...