Word: nipponization
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...trade. In his Fascist forge Benito Mussolini hammered three big Italian firms into the Italia Line, cocky owner of the new S. S. Rex and S. S. Conte di Savoia. Roosevelt-Dollar-Dawson interests combined to take over tottering U. S. Lines. Japan's two largest shipping companies, Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japan Mail Steamship Co.) and Osaka Shosen Kaisha (Osaka Mercantile Steamship Co.) last year agreed to divide some of their far-flung traffic. Last week it was reported that officials of these two big lines were negotiating an actual consolidation...
Showering her choicest honors on a beaming, bewildered Chinese last week. Dai Nippon or Great Japan asked in effect, "What have you got to have that I haven't got to give...
Aged Threat. Only one pacific voice was raised in Nippon last week, that of ancient Count Koken Tanaka, former Minister of the Imperial Household who suddenly emerged from retirement and announced that unless the present Government did not immediately adopt measures to allay unemployment and save poor Japanese citizens from starvation, he would cut open his 90-year-old belly in protest to the Emperor's Ear, Elder Statesman Prince Kimmochi Saonji...
Artfully translated by Arthur Waley the first four parts of Lady Murasaki's 900-year-old Japanese masterpiece, Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji, The Sacred Tree, The Wreath of Cloud, Blue Trousers), have given many an Occidental reader an appetite for the dainty psychological morsels of antique Nippon. With all its predecessors' inimitable flavor, The Lady of the Boat tells a simple story, though its characters are modernistically complex...
...arms were carving out world headlines in Shanghai, Nanking, Harbin. Flags fluttered from every Tokyo home. Troops drilled in every barracks. Full of martial memories, reservists tramped back and forth to business, pretending their umbrellas were guns. Proud Japanese fathers lectured their sons on the honor of dying for Nippon...