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The article focuses on Japanese newspaper "Asahi Shimbun" which is considered as the No. 1 advertising vehicle of the country despite of its printing problem due to language complex. It mentions that the newspaper delivers 5.5 million copies in its morning edition and 3.5 millions in its evening edition. It states that the newspaper focuses on hard news, national and international affairs and features fiction articles. It says that Asahi is headed by professional newspaperman Tomoo Hirooka.

Presents information on various political and economic developments around the world. Causes of the recent rapid fall of the pound sterling in the exchange markets; Details of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to stop the subsidies to shipping concealed in contracts for carrying mail; Publication of the Hearst papers in a series of featured articles, illustrated with photographs, by one Thomas Walker; Need for everyone in the world above the age of ten to know that Japan intends to dominate all of eastern Asia, including China.

This article focuses on political developments around the world as of March 4, 1939. Alarmed by the impact of the anti-Japanese boycott, leading Japanese business men in the United States held a private conclave recently to discuss counter-measures. To accompany an article on the naval maneuvers Time recently published a map showing the line-up in the Caribbean. French papers are telling the story of an Italian sculptor who carved a Venus and buried it in a field.

This article focuses on the book "America to Japan: A Symposium of Papers by Representative Citizens of the United States on the Relations Between Japan and America and on the Comment Interests of the Two Countries," edited by Lindsay Russell. The symposium of papers by Japanese writers of distinction, entitled "Japan to America", the present volume is a response. To insure the future development of Japan, it is imperative that she preserve and strengthen her friendship with both the great English-speaking peoples, and gradually substitute their representative institutions for her present imperialism.

This article focuses on the book "The American Japanese Problem. A Study of the Racial Relations of the East and the West," by Sidney L. Gulick. This is an eminently judicious handling of a perplexing question. The threat made ten years ago by disappointed newspaper men, that the snubs they received at the Japanese military headquarters would not be forgotten, has since been made good in persistent news- paper misrepresentation and antagonism. The different national temper of the Japanese, who rely on their home government to present their grievances at the capital in a way that forces respectful attention, has irritated the complacent local politician, accustomed to the more subservient Chinese attitude.

The world economy has recently exhibited many contradictory phenomena, but perhaps none more extraordinary than Japan's rapid trade expansion during the past two years. While some other countries have regained a small fraction of their pre-depression trade, Japan has already reached a point within striking distance of its 1929 total. The moment for this trade drive, which began while Japan was slashing its way through "scraps of paper" such as the Nine Power Treaty and the anti-war pact, could have been better timed. The increases in Japan's trade during the past two years make a substantial showing. Total Japanese trade advanced from 2,383,000,000 yen in 1931 to 3,778,000,000 in 1933, as compared to the 4,365,000,000 in 1929.

Little news has come out of India during the past two months. Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru is silent behind prison walls and if the people continue to demonstrate on the streets, papers have not reported it. But silence does not necessarily imply submission. India still boils with frustration and unrest. It is the scene of one of the most dismal political failures of the United Nations and Japanese machinations are working to turn that failure into victory for the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere." The central figure in the Japanese campaign is Subhas Chandra Bose, beloved by millions of Indians who remember him as a fiery patriot and leftist leader.

This article focuses on various political and social issues around the world. The formal announcement made through the financial agents of Japan in this country, that the Japanese government has decided on a drastic cut in its military and naval outlay, need cause no surprise. Germany has explained that when she let loose her latest Moroccan thunderbolt, she was merely offering advice, but French journalists when discussing German policy with regard to Morocco will continue to use the favorite adjective, brutal. The Kentish hop-growers are having a hard year. A few months ago they were complaining so bitterly on the "dumping," of American hops on the English market that a select committee was appointed to report on the industry. A striking difference may be pointed out between the Roman Catholic Church and the average young person who writes verses for the magazines.

Reactions of France to the Japanese attack on Shanghai are very significant. During the session of the Council of the League of Nations in Paris in November and December 1931, most of those that closely followed proceedings of the Council had a strong suspicion that there was a secret understanding between France and Japan. Now that the capitulation of the League Council has had the consequences that it was bound to have the attitude of the French press confirms the suspicion that there is a secret Franco Japanese understanding.

Focuses on policies of the U.S. towards South-East Asia. Effects of assassinations in Tokyo to paralyze Japanese military action in Asia; Comment on crisis in Japan's relations with China, the Soviet Union and the Western Powers; Requirement of base in Manila for the U.S. navy; Information that American fortifications west of Hawaii are forbidden by the Washington and London treaties; Comment on the future relations of Japan with the U.S.; Dependency of Japan upon the manufacture of cotton and rayon textiles.

It seems certain that Japan must in its own right be a leading power in East Asia. The Japanese are the most highly educated people in Asia, much better educated than many Western peoples. They are skilled in science and technology, organization and management. Unlike many Asian nations they are remarkably homogeneous in race, religion, language and culture. But on the political and military fronts the story is different. Prime Minister Eisaku Sato has expressed his government's sympathy with U.S. objectives in Vietnam. In the last few years the Japanese leaders have gained the confidence to make it clear, however politely, that they want to make their assessments of what is happening in Asia, and to decide for themselves the role they want to play.

This article focuses on the international relations between various countries. The Axis-Japan pact has been called everything from a bluff to the blueprint of a new totalitarian world order. In fact it is a typical Nazi maneuver, and so it combines some elements of both. But Hitler has always used failure as a stepping-stone for new advances, and while it is legitimate to take satisfaction at the stubborn courage which has ended the hope of an autumn invasion of England, wise observers will not discount the importance of Hitler's grandiose substitute scheme. The pact with Japan has been treated, of course, as a resounding diplomatic triumph, and no doubt it will be accepted as such by the bemused masses of Germany and Italy.

This article focuses on the treaty between the Great Britain and Japan during the World War. This treaty still remains a mere piece of composition on paper, an agreement between two governments of West and East but does not represent the mutual understanding of one race with another. Japan stands in a rather safe place at present, where no immediate serious consequences of the war will be felt. With such a blessing of the situation, Japanese can practice an art of criticism even with an accompaniment of wine and smoke.

The article focuses international relation. Confidential dispatches were received at the U.S. State Department, which are said to confirm the general tone of the forecasts of the German reply to the American note cabled by correspondents from Berlin, Germany. Whether the relaxation of activity by German submarines during the past two weeks represents the normal period of respite, respite from Nepenthe, which succeeds strenuous days. It indicates an intention on the part of Germany to moderate her submarine warfare. Dispatches from China on Monday revealed the fact that in the middle of May, during the crisis between China and Japan, an identical warning had been conveyed to both countries that the United States would not recognize any agreement, which impaired American rights in China or endangered the policy of the open door.

The article presents recent developments in world politics. There has been no further development during the past week in the situation in Romania or other Balkan states. It seems significant, however, that a loan of $25,000,000 has been arranged for Romania in England, and if dispatches from Rome and Athens published in recent papers are to be accepted. Whatever Italy's ultimate decision on the question of peace or war may be, it becomes increasingly evident that decision will be taken by Italy alone, uninfluenced by threats or persuasions of other Germany and Austria. Somewhat sensational dispatches from Chinese government were published on January 27 concerning demands that Japan had made upon China following the Japanese occupation of Kiao-chau.

The article offers information on various developments related to economy and politics in the Far East in February 1933. Japan is not alarmed over the stand by the League of Nations and rest of the world against her policy of aggression on the Asiatic mainland. It is expected that the demand for steel in Japan will reach 2.8 million tons in 1933. The balance of trade is favorable and exceeding by 7 million dollars.

Presents an open letter addressed to Inazo Nitobé, a Japanese internationalist. His interview in which he upheld in the most sweeping terms the recent acts of Japan in Manchuria and Shanghai in China; Statement in a Far Eastern newspaper, gravely stating that Woodrow Wilson would have welcomed the establishment of the new state of Manchuria on the ground that it was in accord with the principle of self-determination; Information that for seven years he faithfully served the cause of international cooperation as a high official in the League Secretariat; Question as to why he is apparently indifferent to the violations by Japan of the League Covenant and the anti-war pact.

Presents several letters to the editor. Information about foreign affairs in the United States; Discussion about the public opinion against Japan; Criticism and understanding of this world by school students.

The Chinese have always been a curious people and they are possessed of some very queer old customs. The managers of the Greatest Show on Earth seem to have chosen the present Soviet Union government to act as their Invisible Property Man. Officially they refuse to believe that there is such a thing as a Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. As far as Washington is concerned, official Soviet Union simply does not exist. There is some trouble, so it appears, about the exact status of a certain country called Manchuria. Japan wants that country and China wants it or has it and the two nations threaten to go to war with each other on account of this distant and mysterious territory.

Focuses on political developments in the world, with emphasis on political conditions in the U.S. Information on the U.S. Navy's proposal for peace and weapon disarmaments; Discussion of the Pearl Harbor investigation and theory set up by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, to warn the Americans of the dangers of fascist aggression; Information on the U.S. Government's encouragement of reconversion policy; Discussion of the Anglo-American talks on the Lend-Lease between Great Britain and the U.S.; Discussion of the unemployment-compensation legislation and the Kilgore unemployment bill which is considered by Senator Walter George of Georgia to reveal his opposition in the U.S. Congress; Opinion of Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada on the Administration bill that the main purpose of reorganization should be to return to the states the powers which, the federal government usurped during the war; Discussion of the demands of the steelworkers for a wage increase; Information on the U.S. state referenda which states that since there is ceiling on the price of cotton, one must have a low price on the cost of picking and poor sharecroppers must pay their hired hands, and cannot afford decent wages; Information on U.S. General Douglas MacArthur's announcement that he will be the boss of the Japanese Emperor, and stay in Japan until the Potsdam terms are carried out; Discussion of the responsibility of the U.S. in deciding how to control the atomic bomb and cooperation of British and Russian scientists; Information on the Economic Stabilization Act that authorizes the U.S. President to set farm wages and State Wage Board in each state, which holds hearings and then sets a tentative figure for farm wages.

Focuses on foreign relations between the United States and Japan. Reference to the prevalence of a dichotomy in the traditional American outlook on Japan; Perplexity in minds of American politicians regarding how to frame policies for trade with Japan; Advantages of rise of a new democratic order in Japan; Fundamental aspects of the Japanese social structure; Discussion of postwar policy of the U.S. toward Japan.

The article focuses on issues related to international relations. It is hard to believe that so discreet an official as the foreign minister of so diplomatic a nation as the Japanese should have really made use of the uncalled for and almost brutal threats against the Chinese Government, with which a Korean dispatch credits him. In the absence, however, of testimony to the contrary, Japanese foreign minister Viscount Hayashi is on record as declaring that the fate of Korea may be regarded by China as a lesson; it should be a warning to that country to put her house in order, ere some strong nation, whichever one might be moved so to do, imitates events in Korea. From the moment when peace was signed with the Boers at Vereeniging, South Africa in 1902, the union of Africa south of the Limpopo and Orange Rivers, South Africa under one autonomous government might have been taken for granted. The British trend towards colonial federation, which had manifested itself in North America and Australia under the sole influence of internal causes, could not but run with greater force in South Africa, where was to be found the additional powerful stimulus of neighboring foreign territories and, consequently, foreign rivalry.

This article focuses on the sociopolitical developments in various parts of the world. This has been a test year for organized labor of the U.S. Two years ago, wages were on an ascending scale, the movement culminating in the demands of railroad hands in all parts of the country for a larger share of the profits resulting from the great industrial boom. The extent and the cost of the victory at Liaoyang are still in doubt, no such doubt invests the sudden coming of Japan to her military majority. Indeed, the war power of Japan has already been admitted with a premature if prophetic readiness.

Provides some insights into the political and economic events as of December 1944 in relation to World War II which began in 1939. Implications of the bombing of Tokyo, Japan by the U.S. Armed Forces headed by Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle to strengthening the people's will to resist; Effects of the war to the government crises in Belgium, Italy and Poland; Resignation of Premier Ivanoe Bonomi in Italy; Effects of the war to price increases in petroleum, clothing and problems in labor worldwide.

This article offers a look at the legal and cultural problems which Westerners and United States businessmen encounter in seeking business in Japan. The author mentions the book "The Honorable Picnic," by Thomas Rauçat. He stresses the importance of businesspeople placing themselves in the Japanese culture while establishing business opportunities and negotiating with Japanese businessmen. The article discusses business management practices in the country, the impact of culture, and strategies for coping with differences in culture and organizational practice.

Focuses on the implications of the end of Vietnam War for the U.S., China and Japan. Reasons for the opposition of China to the meeting in Paris, France for the negotiations regarding the Vietnam War; Agreement of the U.S. to conduct negotiations within Hanoi's terms; Plans of elimination of all foreign military bases in Vietnam; Recognition of the National liberation Front (NLF) as the sole genuine representative government of the South Vietnamese; Goal of the U.S. to secure North Vietnam's recognition of the existence of a separate South Vietnam state; Aims of the U.S. and the NLF of Hanoi, Vietnam for the settlement negotiations; Impact of the loss of the U.S. military control over Vietnam on the Japanese-American alliance; Impact of the settlement on foreign policies of the U.S., China and Japan.

The article presents news related to world politics. There is one strong resemblance between the position of the British prime minister David Lloyd George and the U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. Whenever a by-election takes place they meet with defeat. Wilson has not added much to the clarification of the Shantung situation. The President hastened to make it plain that in the view of the Big Four there is no connection between the question of the return of Shantung and the execution of the agreement of 1915 between China and Japan. But no explanations can remove permitting Japan to succeed to rights which were obtained by Germany from her by force and duress.

Reports on socio-political and economic developments around the world. Role of the League of Nations on the seizure of Corfu Island, Greece; Pressure on Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini by France and England to accept the terms of the League; Information on the negotiations between Jugoslavia and Italy on the domination of Fiume, West Croatia; Speculation on the attitude of the U.S. political parties on foreign policy in the wake of 1924 elections; Information on the currency question in Germany; View of Governor Gifford Pinchot on the added cost of anthracite as per the settlement of the coal strike; Speculation on the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake; Information on the activities of the League of Nations; Information on issues related to the politics and government in the U.S.; Report that the organization Ku Klux Klan, victim of outraged public sentiment at Carnegie, Pennsylvania, invoked the aid of the American Civil Liberties Union in making good its right to peaceable assembly, free speech and free movement; Information on the golden jubilee of the invention of the typewriter; Statement of Secretary John W. Weeks in reply to criticism of U.S. military expenditures; Information on the new Intra-Wall Correspondence Schools in Columbus, Ohio, for the uplift of the inmates of every penitentiary in the U.S.; Clash between Ku Klux Klan and John C. Walton, Governor of Oklahoma; Criticism of the fine imposed by the American government on the steamships which crossed the line a few minutes before midnight on August 31, 1923; Information on the practice of commandeering personal property belonging to citizens of enemy countries; Information on the brutality of the British government in penalizing many luckless individuals who happen to be enemy aliens; Victory of the Ku Klux Klan in the municipal election at Portland, Maine; Statement of Lady Eleanor Smith in support of her father Earl of Birkenhead, F.E. Smith.

Discusses the dispute between Russia and Japan for control of Siberia. United States refusal to recognize the Far Eastern Republic; Political history of the Far Eastern Republic; History of the guerrilla warfare in eastern Siberia.

The article authors are of the view that recognition of China would lead to unlocking the shackles that have so far confined the Chinese giant, and allowed Japan and the U.S. to operate virtually undisturbed in an area that is historically, ethnically, economically and politically akin to China. Thus the trans-Pacific agreement is important to the maintenance of these economic superpowers. It means a gamble that a Tokyo-Washington alliance, based partly on Sino-Soviet petulance, can chaperone Japanese-American capitalism, more or less intact, into the 21st century. In order to "win" this three-way international bet, the U.S. must hold Japan and China apart; and Japan must keep itself and the U.S. aloof from China.

Moscow has had its way at the Communist summit. For the Soviets the international conference of seventy-five Communist and workers parties, which met in the Kremlin, was at once a liturgical exercise at home and a political maneuver against Peking, China. For the Moscow-oriented movement outside the Soviet bloc it was a quickening experience On the other hand, the Communist parties of Japan, North Korea, North Vietnam and most of southern Asia, which seek to remain aloof from both Moscow and Peking, are gratified that they did not participate in what turned out to be a focused attack on Maoism, earlier Soviet promises not withstanding. Peking has called it a "sinister counterrevolutionary conference" and a despicable plot

The article presents the economic and political updates of the U.S., as of November 25, 1909. Careful perusal of the opinion in Saturday's decision against the Standard Oil Co. will convince most readers of the journal "The Nation," that it is not only sound law as the statutes stand, but is conservative interpretation of the law. The decision of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is, like the Supreme Court Vs Northern Securities decision of 1904, leveled primarily against the holding-company device, when employed for monopolistic purposes. In another political update, the U.S. State Department's approval of the China-Japanese conventions concerning Manchuria, China, signed on September 4, comes somewhat belated, but welcome nevertheless.

The article comments on various social and political developments around the world. There has been considerable stir over the anti-Japanese bills laid before the California Legislature; and in an address in Washington on Monday, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has made a fresh demand for a "square deal" for the Japanese. Apparently, the matter is now to be threshed over again in the terrifying headlines of the sensational press. But a recent investigation by the Federal Bureau of Labor shows how little basis there is for the demagogue's frequent assertion that his opposition to the Japanese is neither blind nor selfish, but can stand the test of facts and logic.

Focuses on the need of Japan to protect China against the corrupt government by keeping control of Shantung to prevent it from alienating the territory to some other power. History of European aggression in China, especially the technique of conquest by railway and finance; Claim that pro-Chinese propaganda had wilfully misled Americans into confusing the few hundred square miles around the port of Tsing-tao with the Province of Shantung with its Chinese population; Demand for Japan to supply military and police advisers to China; Discussion about economic rights in relation to political domination.

Reports global developments related to politics and government. Views of the military critics on the German advance in the neighborhood of Ypres, Belgium; Denial of Japanese official on aggressive intentions in Siberia, Russia; Choice of directors for the new War Finance Corp. by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.

This article presents information on various political issues around the world. It is almost thirty years since a small party, mostly civil-service reformers, sat down to breakfast in Washington, with the view of introducing their subject to the notice of a few men in public life, one of whom was a U.S. Senator. The legislature at Albany usually sits about four months, but the time occupied by the session bears comparatively little relation to the bulk of legislation turned out. Early in January the members of the parliamentary opposition introduced an address to the throne making the present ministers responsible for the retrocession of the Liaotung Peninsula and the failure of Japan's Corean policy.

The article focuses on the relationships between Japan and the U.S. during 1923. Japanese relations. Viscount Shibusawa, who is now eighty three years old, is Japan's leading merchant, and one of her wisest and most prominent publicists. More than a year has now passed since the Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armament. Many considerations render it desirable that the peoples of these two countries should take stock of what has already been accomplished and what remains to be done in achieving the desire of the great majority of the countries on both sides of the Pacific, that the best possible understanding and even the kindliest feelings shall prevail and continue indefinitely.

This article presents the concluding chapters of an official history of Japanese intervention published by the Special Delegation of the Far Eastern Republic to the United States. Soon after the conference of the toiling people had elected the Government of Verkhne-Udinsk, in East Siberia, it was recognized by the Government of the Amur Province as the central government for the entire Far East. Afraid that the Maritime Government which had been recognized as the provisional government, might also extend its recognition to the Government of Verkhne-Udinsk as a central government, the Japanese began to exert on it an incessant pressure, not even stopping at threats. At the same time the Japanese also began to coquet with the Maritime Government, declaring it to be the only truly democratic government, and that Japan would recognize it if it would place itself at the head of al the provincial governments.

Presents the socio-political situation in the world. Acknowledgement of the Franklin D. Roosevelt's, President-elect of the United States, plan to increase revenue by raising the normal rates and lowering the exemptions of the income tax; View that drastic increases in the inheritance tax are more justifiable and desirable than in the income tax in the U.S.; Comments on the reorganization plans of the President of the United States, Herbert Clark Hoover; Reference to Japanese invasion of Chinese territories; Description of the "Five Year Plan" as proposed by Joseph Stalin, general secretary of the Communist party of Soviet Union; Information regarding the difference in the amount of relief provided for unemployed male and female.

Focuses on political and economic developments in the U.S. and all across the world. Step taken by the U.S. Federal Reserve Banks in buying government bonds; Analysis pertaining to the likely war in Manchuria in the face of rising crisis between Japan and the Soviet Union; Discussion that German ruler Adolf Hitler is favored by the development among the Danubian countries and in the Balkans, where France seems to be trying to destroy German trade, and by Polish and Lithuanian aggression on the German border; View that a Mayor of New York is organizing a nationwide series of anti-prohibition parades to take place in support of a demand that beer be legalized; Information about the obituaries of Julia Lathrop, first head of the Children's Bureau of the U.S. government, and Patrick Geddes, British biologist, city planner, thinker and Writer.

Offers a look at the importance of a peace agreement between Great Britain, the US. and Japan to achieve world peace. Ineffectivity of the League of Nations in maintaining peace between countries; Details on the vital decisions for preserving peace; Accounts on the political reason for the U.S. to fight the war for principle of universal application.

Discusses developments in the United States politics and in world politics. Nomination for office of Herbert Hoover as the Republican presidential candidate; Problems of the immediate future in China; Impact of any effort to carry the civil struggle into Manchuria on a war between China and Japan; Criticism of the New York State Department of Labor in administering the workmen's compensation law; Victory for the Federal Reserve authorities in a struggle with the bullish operators on the market; France's announcement of a stabilization of the franc.

The article discusses the buildup to World War II. There is little doubt that Japan is planning the construction of battleships larger than the 35,000 tons allowed under the London Naval Treaty of 1930, if it has not already started to build them. The sharp request for information on this point, amounting to an ultimatum, from the United States, Great Britain, and France would therefore superficially seem destined only to irritate the Japanese. Actually, this joint action of the powers has two purposes. It serves notice that the three democracies intend scrupulously to observe the forms of international law-in itself no mean-purpose in a world increasingly given to lawlessness-and that they include Japan in the company of those countries whose word is not to be taken seriously.

This article presents information on various political developments in the world. The party Cabinet in Japan that came into power with so much applause in June has reached an inglorious end in a shorter time even than its enemies predicted. Its supporters at the start confidently affirmed that this Cabinet would have a term of six years at least, while its enemies, the Conservatives attached to the old regime, hardly dared to limit its duration to less than two years. A tenure of office lasting scarcely four months has seen the rise, decline, and fall of the first party cabinet in Japan, together with a complete disintegration of the Constitutional party. Ever since the war of 1870, France imagined that she had and could have but one enemy, the thought of a war with England never entered her mind. Not that there was anything between France and England like an alliance, France thought that her ancient ally of the Crimea had been too indifferent to her misfortunes, and had too readily acquiesced in the hard conditions of the Treaty of Frankfort. But this sentiment did not create any ill-will, as the war of 1870 had really been provoked by the Empire, as it had been short, and as the victories of Prussia had been too crushing to give to the neutral Powers much influence in the result.

The article reports on the protests of Japanese against the move of Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi the revision of the U.S.-Japan Treaty. It states that demonstrators fought against police and tried to prevent Kishi to meet with U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower. It indicates that the opponents protest that the treaty revision implies commitment of Japan to support all U.S. moves in the Pacific.

Presents information about several developments around the world. Information about the post-war negotiations in Europe; Efforts of Prime Minister Koki Hirota to form a new Cabinet in Japan; Comments on U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's new tax policy; Information about the employment and earning in manufacturing industries; Results of an investigation into the lobbying against the Wheeler-Rayburn Bill in the last session of the U.S. Congress.