Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese magazine tycoon, publisher of the daily Hochi Shimbun ("Intelligence Newspaper'') and nine magazines with a combined circulation of over 10,000,000, author of numerous tracts and autobiographical sketches (Secrets of Success in Life, Talks on Mental Training, Noma of Japan); of heart disease; in Tokyo...
Cantonese form the majority of Chinese living abroad and these are sure to quicken their cash contributions of millions to the Generalissimo now that Canton is at stake. White correspondents in Tokyo flashed that the Japanese would have preferred a European war to the peace of Munich, since war would have completely tied British hands in the Far East. Tokyo was watching Joseph Stalin as well as Neville Chamberlain, and when the purge of the Soviet Far East Army officers got under way recently, Japan concluded she need not keep so many troops in North China and Manchukuo facing...
...mile Canton-Hankow Railway. At week's end Japanese contingents landed on both sides of the Pearl River delta, one column slashing communications between Canton and Portuguese Macao on the coast, another striking on the east bank near Hong Kong. A Japanese War Office spokesman announced in Tokyo: "Japan is fixed in her determination to crush Chiang Kai-shek's regime; we do not intend to take Hong Kong or Singapore or advance southward in the Pacific; but we must and will carry out our program in China...
This was exactly the type of assurance Adolf Hitler has been giving with respect to Europe. Neville Chamberlain last week had the British Ambassador at Tokyo, Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, demand assurances from the Japanese government that British property in South China be respected...
...Japanese Ambassador's duties consists of smoothing over trivial incidents which might impair "hands across the sea" relationships. Even before he left for the U. S., the new Ambassador was faced with one of these last week. Prissy delegates to the International Women's Friendship League in Tokyo protested to the police authorities when they learned that 30 lissome Hollywood girl Softball players, Japan-bound for an exhibition series, habitually cavorted about the fields in snug-fitting, thigh-revealing shorts. Police decreed that the girls' shorts must be lengthened to cover the knees...