Word: nipponization
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While the Old Marshal lived he and Japan were friendly, and Manchuria knew such peace and prosperity as never before. The Young Marshal believes that the bombs which killed his father were Japanese (TIME, June 11, 1928). He nurses an implacable hatred for Nippon. Last week Old Uncle, a family retainer who has outgrown and succeeded the House of Chang, loomed as likely to make every effort to meet Japanese half way and try to rule Manchuria in the same manner Old Marshal...
Japan's grappler was President Kenkichi Kagami of Nippon Yusen Kaisha, the Japanese Mail Steamship Co., largest, most luxurious operated by Asiatics. Bland, bespectacled, slightly plump, Mr. Kagami, an incessant smoker of U. S. cigarettes got his technical training in the Occident, sailed home to become an executive genius of Japan's No. 2 house of merchant princes, the Mitsubishi, which controls the N. Y. K. (No. 1 is the House of Mitsui...
...Nakamura failed to enthuse over the matter of noses, said it would be "a feverish business," to risk insulting practically every parent in Nippon. Though the project fell through, some credit should be given Writers Haight and Jones for their pioneer work in the movement...
...owners are one of Japan's great families, the House of Iwasaki. She flys the "N. Y. K." flag of the Japan mail steamship company, famed Nippon Yusen Kaisha. Beaming with satisfaction her passengers debarked from the first trans-Pacific "Cabin Class" ($250), from the first trans-Pacific "Tourist Third" ($125). Hitherto it has cost some $300 to cross the Pacific in First and to cross in plain Second or plain Third has been even more infra dig; than on the Atlantic...
...daughter dominions of the British Empire do not share good Mother England's intimacy with the potent little yellowmen of Nippon. Due primarily to the influence of Canada, New Zealand and Australia? all leery of Japanese immigrants?Great Britain is no longer the formal ally of Japan. But informal relations continue close and cordial between the first and third greatest naval Powers. Last week wise Mother England sent one of her very nicest sons?downy-lipped Henry, the Duke of Gloucester, third son of George V.?to bestow the Most Noble Order of the Garter on His Majesty...