Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Problem XX is more than a fame. Never before, not even when the Navy cavorted in Japan's back yard last year, has the U. S. so frankly marshaled its sea power to deal with specific foes (Germany, Italy) as they would line up in a specific situation. For the armed forces of the U. S. now have something to do besides wait for a war to be declared. To forestall that event, Commander-in-Chief Franklin Roosevelt has put ships and planes to use in world politics-the "power politics" that up to now has been played only...
...newspapers consulted, only 13 refused Harvard permission to copy their publications. Newspapers from Germany and England, France and Italy, Russia, China, and Japan are alike being recorded. No objection has been heard from the organs of totalitarian states. Films of "La Vanguardia" of Barcelona are still being received at Widener...
...cheer up the soldiers, hundreds of geishas, storytellers, wrestlers, chorus girls, magicians, actors and prostitutes have traveled the long weary miles from Japan to the China front during the past 18 months. The same route has been crossed by other hundreds of newspaper men, photographers, lecturers, poets, painters, cartoonists, novelists, composers and lyric writers, for few campaigns in history have ever been so painstakingly reported to a home population as Japan's war in China...
Biggest poetic outpouring of Japan is the annual Imperial poetry contest, the winners of which were announced last week by the Poetry Bureau of the Imperial Household. Any Japanese subject may submit a poem of 31 syllables (called a tanka) on a given subject. This year's subject: ''The Morning Sun Shines on the Island." Normally about 17,000 subjects of His Imperial Majesty Emperor Hirohito submit a tanka, but the wartime verse boom more than doubled the usual number of contestants. This year's contestants numbered...
...months after publication Wheat and Soldiers had become Japan's most spectacular best-seller (almost 5,000,000 copies...