Word: japanism
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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What the ukulele is to Hawaii, the bagpipes to Scotland, the samisen is to Japan. A three-stringed, long-necked banjo with enormous decorative tuning pegs and a square wooden drum covered with white dogskin parchment, it makes a noise something like a ukulele-bagpipe merger. No Geisha girl dares hold up her elaborately coiffed head unless she is adept on the samisen. More samisens are made and sold than any other musical instrument in Japan, yet the samisen industry has felt the World Depression...
...promptly filed it in his inexhaustible mental library. His interest was professional, not queasy, for he was Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett, founder and publisher of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. He and his wife .Annette were bound for Manila, thence for Australia and New Zealand, China and Japan in quest of big game. That they can and do often make such trips is testimony to the rich success of Publisher Fawcett's simple plan: to harness the smoking-room story and make it work for him. Further testimony is the fact that Fawcett magazines (all monthly...
Sample of the diplomatic arguments used: Japan's Chief Delegate, Naotake Sato at a recent, vital session of the Preparatory Commission...
...military training much, owing to the varying character of our troops. Some of them require much training. Our mountaineers with hairy ears at first refuse to wear soldiers' boots and our fishermen cannot soon learn to sleep in iron barrack bedsteads because the steel springs tickle them. Therefore Japan cannot accept the amendment proposed...
...Treaty already limits three navies (U. S., England, Japan) directly by global tonnage and by categories; the Draft, proposes that all navies be eventually limited by similar means...