Word: tokio
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...this Hunchun incident, chance also plays favorably with Japan as regards American problems. The unfavorable legislation in California has created something of a furor. There have been fierce campaigns in the Japanese press, public opinion is aroused, threats of war have been made--even official Tokio assumes to be "touched and grieved." But it is well to remember that Japanese immigrants in California mean nothing in comparison with Japan's imperialistic ambitions; it is in Siberia, Manchuria, China, that her real interests lie. America has been distinctly curious concerning these interests during the past year or two. It has befriended...
...means of enforcing their demand that full publicity be given to all negotiations on the Shantung question between the Pekin and Tokio governments, the recent strike of students in 14 provinces of China may not have proved a brilliant success. As evidence of the militant spirit of young China the walk-out of students is nevertheless tremendously significant. The Chinese students reached their decision to strike through motives of purest patriotism. They feared--whether rightly or not makes no difference that the Pekin Government was disposed to betray the national interests of China unless all its dealings with Japan were...
...Japan looks at the world today through Western eyes," claims Yone Noguchi, Japanese poet and professor of English Literature at the University of Tokio. Perhaps the best known of Oriental poets, Noguchi has taken the place of Lofcadio Hearn in bringing into closer touch the civilizations of the East and West. He is one of the few foreigners to adopt English as the language for his poetry, and all his work shows an ability to handle English as no other non-English poet save Tagore has done...