Word: nippon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military is on the alert, and every possible defense measure is being undertaken. My message is one of serenity and confidence." One Japanese was arrested for snipping telephone wires, one was caught with an old, much-used set of harbor charts, 13 others were found barricaded in the Nippon Bazaar, a few were caught carrying knapsacks packed with tinned goods; but for the most part the Japanese herded docilely into concentration camps...
...Japanese have a different situation on their hands in Formosa. Apparently they mistreated the mountain people there who did not accept Nippon rule. So the Japanese had to content themselves with enclosing their mountain province in an electrically charged barbed wire fence to at least prevent hostile tribes from raiding the civilized lowlands...
...recent Japanese cabinet upheaval, which tossed out procrastinating Prince Konoye because of his "failure to reach an understanding with the United States" and gave military and political power to General Eiki Tojo, has set the stage for further aggression whenever Nippon feels the time is ripe. The island is now completely dominated by the military extremists, advocates of total war mobilization in the Pacific and close cooperation with the Nazis. Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo even has a German wife. However, the new cabinet has not committed itself to a definite program but will probably watch developments in Eastern Russia very...
...planes of Japanese-controlled Dia Nippon Airways regularly take off in four directions. To the northwest they go to Dairen, Mukden and Hsinking in Manchukuo; to the south they reach the tiny islands of Palau, 500 miles closer to the U.S. than the Philippines, continue on to Portuguese Timor in the East Indies; to the west they roar to Shanghai, other Chinese cities; to the southwest they fly over Formosa to Canton, then over French Indo-China to Bangkok in pro-Japanese Thailand. The eastern and western arms of their airlines form a giant horseshoe around the Philippines...
...churchmen left Riverside with a real feeling that the Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan (Japan Christian Church), being as indigenous as Fujiyama, might make Japan more Christian than foreign missions ever succeeded in doing. Japanese delegates had made the point that Christianity flourished in 16th-Century Japan after the evangelism of St. Francis Xavier, when the authorities suspected that it might be preparing the way for the conquest of Japan by European countries as the Philippine Islands had been conquered. For more than two centuries, Christians were forbidden to enter Japan on pain of death. With Japanese at the helm...