Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese would have preferred a European war to the peace of Munich, since war would have completely tied British hands in the Far East. Tokyo was watching Joseph Stalin as well as Neville Chamberlain, and when the purge of the Soviet Far East Army officers got under way recently, Japan concluded she need not keep so many troops in North China and Manchukuo facing the Russians. It was mainly Japanese forces released from their "watch in the North" who drove into South China this week...
Meanwhile the two main prongs of Japan's drive in Central China on Hankow closed pincers-like. At Sinyang the Japanese blasted their way into the walled city and cut the only railway over which Russian supplies could reach Hankow. On the Yangtze River Japanese naval vessels poured shells on the fortified heights of Maoshan and Shihhweiyao, on opposite banks of the river and only 60 miles in a beeline from Hankow...
...Japan more than...
SECRET AGENT OF JAPAN-Amleto Vespa-Little, Brown...
...them for his knowledge of the country, and for his status as a European who nevertheless could not claim the protection ''of a European country. According to Amleto Vespa, the Japanese forced him to become their agent by threatening his wife and children. Secret Agent of Japan is his account of his experiences from 1932 until his flight from Manchuria in 1936, covering his operations in Harbin, accounts of the Manchurian drug traffic, thefts, kidnapping, assassinations, torture, all of which he ascribes to Japanese army officers...