Word: nipponization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...students enrolled in Japan's 45 universities, slightly more than 1,000 are Chinese; about 300 are from other foreign countries. Last week New York's Japan Institute proclaimed the growing importance of Nippon as a world educational centre. The 300-odd non-Chinese foreign students, of whom ten are Americans and 126 are Siamese, were delving for the most part into such conventional fields as Oriental history and literature, science, medicine and civil engineering, but there were exceptions. Britain's Trevor P. Legett, for instance, had jujitsued himself into a ''scholarship for advanced practice...
...China incident to build four, eight or even twelve super-battleships, and suggestions that we should do the same and keep up with the Joneses. But the Navy admits it has "no definite information" about Japan's building program, and our fleet still has a marked superiority over Nippon's. So long as we maintain that edge, and so long as we hang on to our iron-clad island defense line in the Pacific, which centers on Oahu, "the most formidable maritime fortress and naval outpost in the world," we are safe from the Land of the Rising...
Several tens of thousands of Chiang's troops were killed and wounded in this battle. We pay our respect to them.-Commander of the Army of Great Nippon...
...after six months, and negotiated the first U. S.-Japanese trade treaty. Negotiations culminated in a grand feast and bottle party on Mississippi's quarterdeck. Just before he passed out, the Japanese High Commissioner flung his arms around a captain's neck and declared through happy tears: "Nippon and America, all same heart." For the next 77 years-until 1931-the U. S.-Japanese heart beat warmly. The two collaborated in opening China's door, and in suppressing her Boxer Rebellion. Theodore Roosevelt sponsored the peace conference at Portsmouth, N. H., which ended the Russo-Japanese...
Officially the Japanese Government was extraordinarily humble. It had begun to realize a sad fact about U. S.-Japanese relations: Nippon and America, now two-piece heart...