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Publicist Akiyama, "the Colonel House of Japan," declared in a magazine article: "Hanihara's 'grave consequences' note was a warning from Heaven which the gods of Nippon conveyed through the pen of a clumsy diplomat...
...Dove, pinko-liberal journal of campus opinion at the University of Kansas, a small part of the world last week learned some inner workings of a Japanese college boy. A college boy evidently encouraged to leave Japan by missionaries. Wrote one Seizo Ogino to a friend in Nippon, a friend evidently about to come to the U. S. to finish his theological studies...
...SACRED TREE - Lady Murasaki - Translated by Arthur Waley - Houghton, Mifflin ($3.50). "Being a continuation," continues the title, "of The Tale of Genji," of which multivolumed novel of 11th Century Nippon (TIME, Aug. 3) a third part will shortly appear. Prince Genji, son of an imperial concubine, sustains the family's amative tradition with graceful zest and much discreet slippering through his father's seraglios and the chambers of ladies, married and otherwise, among the plebs. In this volume he survives an exile inflicted upon him by his mother's chief rival, for his courtesies to her younger...
...Italy and Germany, etc., which deserves cogitation. Will or will not the 300-odd humans on every square mile of German and Italian soil inevitably expand into the relative vacuum represented by France with only 184 human atoms per square mile? When the fighting Japanese atoms finally burst from Nippon, will they erupt by sea or land? If by land, into Russia or China? If by sea, into Australia of the U. S.? With what chances of success...
...last Shogun of Japan, Keiki, still held as military regent the power which had slipped from the Mikados some seven centuries before. When Kawamura was three years old, Commodore Perry, U. S. N., sailed into the harbor of Uraga near Yedo (Tokyo) with four ships and roused slumbering Nippon from the so-called "Oriental stagnation" from which China is now clumsily emerging...