Word: nippon
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...Netherlands East Indies the Japanese economized by paying native laborers 35? (Dutch) a day, as against the Dutch rate of 75?. Discipline was encouraged by public beheadings. Oil was said to be flowing toward Japan. Japanese-language study and close haircuts á la Nippon were ordered for Java's millions of schoolboys. The Japanese were reported confident enough to abolish blackouts, curfews. But the warehouses were jammed with tin, tea, coffee, tobacco, sugar and coconuts, and there were no ships to move them. The U.S. submarine campaign (see p. 27) was helping to keep Japan from reaping the spoils...
...Japs set up monopolies in salt, tobacco, matches. To get more money, they sold chances on a million-yen lottery to the Malays. At Singapore, a college of colonial administration was established for aspiring Jap administrators. Also opened in Singapore was a tourist bureau extolling the beauties of Nippon...
...Japanese beetle can be considered an ally of Nippon's Army and Navy, the House of Representatives has made possible a costly invasion of this country. The farm bloc, activated by a selfish desire to get as much as possible out of the war effort, has refused to appropriate a single penny for the Department of Agriculture. Even the funds for necessary overhead expenses and salaries have been denied. This refusal is predicated on two issues: the theory of parity and a resolute opposition to long-range plans for solving the farm problem...
...Goebbels used to intimidate foreign statesmen by showing them movies of the Polish blitz and of the fall of France. Since those outdated smash hits, he has had no wows to offer. Recently he had to suffer the chagrin of going to the Japanese Embassy to see their supercolossal Nippon's Wild Eagle, showing the attack on Pearl Harbor, the conquest of the Philippines, Malaya, Borneo...
...Java great Japanese banks (Yokohama Specie Bank, Bank of Taiwan) were already exceedingly active. The Jap's New Order in Asia was potentially one of the richest economic units in the world; already the Japanese felt heady enough to discourage use of the word Japan in favor of Nippon or Dai Nippon (Great Japan...