Word: nippon
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...defeat may even have been decisive, for in the far-flung adventures of Nippon, where empires are won by shoestring forces and strength is spread perilously thin, there is no room for crushing defeats. It was not a naval battle on the scale of Jutland; but it might in the end prove to have had a farther-reaching effect...
...Returning, he became a writer-editor of FORTUNE in 1930. As a general journalist he was superb. When the Japs struck at Pearl Harbor, and Americans turned to their reference works to find out about Japan, the best one-volume collection of essays penetrating deep into all phases of Nippon was the brilliant Japan number of FORTUNE, chiefly written and edited by MacLeish (September...
Suddenly at midweek, Singapore burst into cheers. The British Malayan Command at last threw the Australians into battle. Flippant as ever, the Aussies moved up to the line, through columns of haggard retiring Britons and Indians, in busses marked' "Tokyo or Bust" and "Nippon Express...
...Yorker cartoon (by Robert Day-see cut) showed a songwriter dreaming up: Stop the Wop, Rip into Nippon, The Hun is done...
...inferior feeling of Nippon is a result of centuries of a Chinese cultural dominance, which will be increased by an Allied victory, explained Dr. Reischauer...