Word: nippon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tennis for women is bunka, but dancing?dancing is to the Japanese too degrading to be known as bunka. Books dealing with the part women are playing in democracy are bunka novels. In other words, bunka is the thin edge of the wedge for enfranchizing the little ladies of Nippon...
There is only one Japan and only one Julian Street to visit, so the Nippon impressions contained in this volume are not political, not "with a purpose", not too critical; yet in a popular rather than trivial vein...
...been intimated further that Japan is clinging to Yap for purposes of negotiation: ownership of land in California, the occupation of Siberia, the Shantung question, and various other phases of Japanese policy would be accorded settlement more favorable to Nippon if she held the whip hand over us by virtue of the Yap dispute. With this in mind, the Japanese stand firm upon the question. But mature consideration of the place which the United States now holds in the financial and commercial world, and the keystone position she maintains with reference to German reparations would seem to indicate that...