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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.

In 1943, with the war against Japan intensifying in the Pacific, Dr. L.F. Fisser of the National Defense Research Committee designed a tiny incendiary bomb for the use of the U.S. Army Air Force. The two-ounce bomb was to be dropped on Japan affixed to free-tailed bats, of which there happened to be an ample supply in Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico. The bat bombs were to be chilled to hibernating temperature in ice-cube trays, packed 180 to a box and sprung free at a thousand feet above the ground, where they would thaw and, in great hunger, swoop down on the wood and paper homes of Tokyo. Something may be insane, but it is only crackpot when it doesn't work. Another plan to bring the total warfare concept to the Japanese capital was conceived by General Curtis LeMay.

Indeed, the world's first nuclear weapons test was conducted by the United States in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945, just twenty-one days before Hiroshima. Twenty-four years later, the author finds himself standing on the campus of the University of Hiroshima with Shoko Itoh, a distinguished Thoreau scholar. Itoh looks up at the Science Department Building, one of the few structures to have survived the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. From the old campus of the University of Hiroshima just a few kilometers away from the epicenter of the A-bomb.

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency colonized large parts of the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, New York. Japan 2000 is a report prepared by the executive of Richard Rose, RIT President, whose contents caused a furor in Japan but received too little attention in the U.S. The U.S. that has dominated the world, and maybe someone else ought to have a crack at it. But to the Japan 2000 crowd, Americans are moral people, unlike a moral-cum-immoral Japanese, and thus have a right to run the world. Americans perceive themselves as morally responsible for spreading democracy around the world and, furthermore, wring their hands over issues of conscience and individual rights at home.

Not all the casualties at the height of the U.S. bombing of North Vietnam after 1965 were Vietnamese. As American warplanes screamed low over North Vietnam, the U.S. government and Ambassador to Japan, Edwin O. Reischauer, were dropping heavy payloads on the Japanese press, hoping thereby to change drastically a public opinion that was 90 per cent or more against Washington's war role. Japanese public opinion was hardly affected. But the bombing made the tone of the Japanese press toward Washington considerably milder. Now a 400-page document, entitled "Writing on Stone," and telling what happened from the time of the U.S. escalation against the Japanese press to the recent disclosure of the Pentagon Papers has been published in Japan with a first printing of 100,000 copies.

This article focuses on the political and economic developments in the U.S. A curious illustration of the indirect but baleful influence of vicious and absurd civil-service system has been recently brought to light in the history of certain experiences that have befallen the Japanese in their intercourse with the U.S. Government. In the midst of this sink of corruption stands the Secretary of the Treasury, not only charged with the custody of the national funds, but charged with the duty of keeping down the price of gold, and even of keeping money easy. In other words, just as Congress, under tariff system, has it in its power to raise or lower the price of nearly all the principal necessaries and luxuries, the Secretary of the Treasury has it in his power to determine in any given week the purchasing power of the paper dollar by raising or lowering the price of gold.

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.

This article presents information on the events of taking hostage and kidnapping in the world. On November 4, 1979 Iranian students took over the U.S. Embassy in Teheran, imprisoning the diplomatic staff. In the eyes of the perpetrators and their sympathizers, the hostage taking in Teheran was a successful tactic, leading directly to the inauguration of the Ronald Reagan team, which swiftly sanctioned arms shipments via Israel, which had already been supplying Iran. another section of the article says that amid the fiftieth anniversary of Pearl Harbor, the press has been full of discussion of whether Japan should apologize for the surprise attack.

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 article presents news briefs on various social and political developments in U.S. Some of the news presented were that two Afro-Americans are on the Atlanta jury that will judge Hiram Evans, former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, who has been indicted for swindling the state on a construction project. The other news is that one fascist group that has been overlooked in most roundups is Pro-America, which operates out of Denver. A speaker at one of its meetings held since Pearl Harbor defended Japan's New Order as a "bulwark against Bolshevism."

Presents several editorials which discuss different subjects. "Nakasone's Setting Sun," which discussed domestic politics in Japan; "Art Officialdom," which discussed the government policy and attitude towards the promotion of art in the U.S.; "False Statistic," which discussed importance of numbers in previous appeals made by prisoners on death row.

The article presents information about various sociopolitical events in the U.S. and around the world, as of May 19, 1997. Japan's Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto was in Washington recently for a long and apparently amiable chat at the White House. This was not a summit; it more closely resembled a proconsul's visit from the far provinces to report that natives, though restless, are for the time being subdued. U.S. President Bill Clinton's first visit to Mexico as President is slated to begin on May 5, 1997, Cinco de Mayo, a patriotic holiday that celebrates the startling 1862 victory of a handful of Zacapoaxtla Indians over the vaunted troops of Napoleon III.

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.

The article presents information on various developments around the world. If Japan, on the one hand, and the second great power involved, the San Francisco Board of Education, on the other, assent to the "solution" of the question of Japanese immigration devised at Washington, an end of the controversy is reached for the time being. William Hurrell Mallock's series of lectures on Socialism promise to make a pleasant book. His literary reputation had, of course, preceded him to the U.S., and he was certain to receive a welcome and to find good audiences.

Presents several letters to the editor on issues related to the United States politics. Reaction to the comment on the manner instead of the matter in an article on New Deal; Inevitability of the Japanese control of the Far Eastern provinces; Decrease in deaths of diabetics because of insulin.

It is evident that Japan is poised to launch its long expected southward drive at the first favorable opportunity. Doubtless it is the intention that this drive should be coordinated with a major Axis offensive in Europe, presumably the invasion of England. When this drive will come, it is impossible to say. But if one is to judge by Japanese behavior during the last six or seven months; it seems safe to assume that Japan is not going to launch a major offensive against either British or Dutch possessions unless it feels reasonably certain that the United States is not going to intervene, or that a British defeat is assured. Since it can hardly feel safe on either of these points at the present moment, one may assume that Japan's immediate steps will be restricted to strengthening its position in the southern part of Indo China and Thailand as a pointed threat to Singapore and Burma.

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 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.

The article presents information on several socio-political developments from around the world. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt has again hit his stride, at least politically. The industrial and market upturn, whatever the guessing as to its causes, needs no guesswork about its political results. The election returns in this country follow the business indices, and the rise in these will do more than any amount of political maneuvering to insure a substantial Democratic victory in the fall elections. With the anniversary of the outbreak of war only ten days off, Japan finds itself once more virtually stalemated in its invasion of China. The Yangtze offensive has been checked by a combination of superior Chinese forces and high water. The threat to the island of Hainan off French Indo-China appears to have been frustrated by warnings from France and Britain. Chengchow remains safe behind the defenses provided by the Yellow River floods. Guerrillas are active once more in both northern Hopei and the Shanghai-Nanking area.

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 focuses on various issues related to politics. Japan's military party has won, and the Japanese are back in control of China's sacred province of Shantung. They have also taken over the entire Shantung Railway, built by the Germans and Japanized during World War I, but returned to China in 1922. A stone may have been set rolling by lawyers in New York City which will modify or end the police inquisitions that have become an established procedure in dealing with crime in the U.S. American police in many cases have come to rely upon confessions obtained by frightening, beating, and torturing suspected persons.

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 focuses on the politics and government of the U.S. A report signed by eight of the ten members of the Congressional Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee declares that "the ultimate responsibility for the attack and its results rests upon Japan" and that "the diplomatic policies and actions of the U.S. provided no justifiable provocation whatever." Attorney General Tom Clark is holding a stick of dynamite in the form of a report brought back from Nurnberg by his special assistant, 0. John Rogge. This is the same Rogge who two years ago was forced to suspend the sedition cases against a number of Firsters, Bundists, and other national pests for lack of clinching evidence.

The article presents information about various books. "Girls' Christian Names," by Helena Swan is a reprint of a work that appeared several years ago. There has been, however, no attempt to bring its information up to date, so that the Princess of Wales is still referred to under "Alexandra" and the Queen under "Victoria." The geographical bibliography for 1904, in the September number of the Annales de Géographie, contains over a thousand main entries, being more than in any previous year. The works relating to France and its colonial possessions occupy naturally the largest place with some two hundred titles, while there are but forty-nine for the U.S. and eight for Japan, scientific works only.

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.

In this article the author comments on the response of the administration of U.S. president Barack Obama to the March 2011 breakdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan following the earthquake and subsequent tsunami. The article notes that Obama's support for nuclear energy is undimmed. A number of topics are addressed including the testimony before congress by Steven Chu, the U.S. secretary of energy, the measure to back nuclear power loan guarantees on the part of the U.S. government, and plans to rethink nuclear policy undertaken by Germany and China.

Earlier this month the nations of the world met in Buenos Aires to try to agree on how to implement the climate treaty that 166 nations signed last winter in Kyoto, Japan. But their efforts, as well as the provisions of the Kyoto treaty, can accomplish little in the face of the relentless obstruction emanating from the U.S. Congress. Instead of proposing constructive solutions, Congressional naysayers deny that global warming is a threat and are blocking the U.S. Government's cautious, minimalist initiatives.

Addresses the issue of the alleged bribery involving the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. and the governments of Japan and the United States. Implication of the controversy on the relations between the two countries; Alleged reason why U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, is preventing the disclosure of the list of executives involved in the scandal; Japanese executives implicated in the affair.

The article presents updates from the U.S., as of February 20, 1995. The extraordinary expansion of the U.S. prison system over the past decade represents the regressive socialism of the right: the only expanding public housing, the only growing public sector employment. The resulting prison archipelago is both vaster and more severely overcrowded than is generally acknowledged. According to another update, on January 30, I. Michael Heyman, the Smithsonian Institution's newly appointed secretary, announced the museum's unconditional surrender to a coalition of veterans groups and politicians on the exhibition of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

Until recently, it has been commonplace to see Japan's emergence as a great power almost exclusively in economic terms. When talk of U.S. Japanese "joint hegemony" became fashionable only a few years ago, for example, cynics envisioned Japan as the banker of the new capitalist world order, while the United States remained its policeman. Armchair historians, for their part, solemnly observed that Japan had achieved superpower status at half the cost that prewar leaders thought necessary-that is, by building a rich nation without a strong military.

Immediately' upon his election, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon forfeited one of his favorite pleasures: a trip to Japan. Under present tensions, no U.S. President may visit that country. Even Nixon's Secretary of State, when he visits Tokyo, will be as heavily guarded as a bullion shipment. Japan's own Prime Minister must perforce choose the back roads to the airport when he travels abroad. What Nixon is being told, by such experts on Japan as Edwin Reischauer and John Ernmerson, both former diplomats in Tokyo, is that chaos in Japan, produced by massive anti-pact, anti-bases and anti-U.S. occupation of Okinawa demonstrations; would trigger swift and debilitating shock waves for the U.S.

The article presents the author's views regarding theater companies in the U.S. In Tokyo the most interesting theatre is still provided in the traditional framework: the Puppet Theatre, the Noh and the Kabuki. It is truly an exotic theatre, wholly distinct from any Western tradition. It does not seek to imitate nature but to create a reality of its own. Scholars explain that the Kabuki, almost as much as the Noh theatre, does not model its playing on human behavior so much as on tile first and favorite actors of the Japanese stage the puppets.

This article presents information, related to socio-political issues. The compromise which has now been reached by the Railroad-Bill Conference Committee regarding the question of Federal control of issues of stocks and bonds, is of a kind very natural under the circumstances. The decision of the California Labor Bureau that Japanese immigration is necessary to the welfare of that State, comes as a striking commentary on. the anti-Japanese agitation of two years ago. The protest at that time seemed to be unanimous. The Legislature was prepared to pass a whole series of restrictive laws, ranging from the total exclusion of Japanese laborers to the segregation in schools of all Japanese children.

The article focuses on the Naval treaty signed between U.S. and Japan. Testifying on the London naval treaty before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations the other day, Secretary Stimson gallantly said: "I take off my hat to the Japanese government in this treaty." He had in mind the great courage that was required of the Cabinet at Tokio in accepting the London agreement in the teeth of the solid opposition of the navy. There is no doubt that the treaty, so far as it affected Japan, was made possible largely by ignoring the theories and contentions advanced by her naval experts.

Results of the Moscow conference have spread consternation among those elements in Tokyo. While there's many a slip `twixt the communiqué' and its realization, these decisions have narrowed the Soviet Union-American rift and enhanced the possibility of developing popular regimes in Japan, Korea and China without destructive civil wars. Russians may differ with on the speed of Japan's political and economic delousing and on the best methods for achieving objectives already blocked out. In Korea however, there is a yawning gap to be bridged.

The article highlights the issue related to international affairs. Are the Japanese about to launch an overwhelming offensive in the Southwest Pacific? Is Australia really in deadly peril of invasion? Recent dispatches from "down under" suggest fears in both military and civilian circles that these questions may shortly be answered in the affirmative. As a possible compromise in the increasingly threatening controversy over coal wages, John B. Steelman, director of the United States Conciliation Service, has proposed that the miners be guaranteed six days' work a week throughout the coming year.

When American and Japanese representatives signed the Washington Naval Limitation Treaty of 1921, the warmongers of their respective countries were disappointed. In the view of American naval men, the U.S., lacking naval bases in the western Pacific, would have little chance of winning a decisive victory in the Far East against a Japanese navy 60 per cent as strong as its own. Japan, with its smaller fleet and its distance from American outposts, saw that it was completely unable to take the initiative in American waters. If hostilities should break out, the two powers seemed destined to pass through a period of prolonged face-making across 7,000 miles of watery no man's land.

The basic fact that must now govern every decision made by the anti-fascist countries with reference to the Far East is that Japan is leading from weakness, not from strength. The change in the Tokyo Cabinet two weeks ago signified that Japan was threshing about in the hole it had dug for itself. By joining the Axis Japan mounted the tiger of European war diplomacy. Then it found itself afraid to stay on and afraid to get off. The Great Britain would not collapse. The United States would not conveniently move into the Atlantic, leaving the Pacific free for Japanese adventuring.

The program of giving England all aid short of war made a giant stride with the resignation of Joseph P. Kennedy as Ambassador to London, England. An ardent champion of appeasement at the time of the Munich pact, Kennedy has since shown somewhat less flexibility on the subject than was displayed by the late Neville Chamberlain. The $100,000,000 credit granted to China by the United States is an overwhelming answer, both diplomatic and practical, to Japan's recognition of its puppet Nanking regime.

This article presents information about various articles published in this issue. Before accepting Malcolm Purcell's article on the political catastrophe that impends in Georgia, the journal checked his analysis and conclusions with several experienced Southern journalists and politicians. Reports reaching from Tokyo of the international conference of scientists held there in early June on the effects of atomic radiation underscore the importance of article in this issue. Sam A. Jaffe's article discusses about the Alliance Party's victory of the first national elections ever held in the Federation of Malaya.

The article presents information on the foreign policy matters in the first hundred days of United States President Dwight David Eishenhower's administration. The terrific punch which the Eisenhower Administration was to inject into America's foreign policy now looks like a shadow-boxer's feint. The fiery irresponsible projects, so recently born and already laid to rest-the plan to "liberate" peoples from the Elbe to the Sea of Japan and the naval blockade on China. The new management has had to acknowledge that glib opposition is one thing and the responsibility of power another.

The article discusses about the election in Japan, which has just been held for new members of Parliament. Since the first election there were no party cries, no party platforms, and no special party excitement. Beyond the fact that the Constitution of Japan prescribes an election within a certain period after the dissolution of Parliament and requires the sanction of Parliament for the enactment of certain measures, it is difficult to see why the late election took place. The article also throws light on relationship of Spain with the U.S. Issues of war and peace have been remitted to the hands of the U.S. President. The only possible escape from some resort to force is apparently the surrender of Spain to the American demands.

This article presents information on political conditions in the U.S. during 1895. A late decision of the U.S. Supreme Court affirms the constitutionality of a state law which prohibits the selling of any substance compounded in whole or in part of fats, oils, or any oleaginous material not produced from milk or cream. California is now afflicted with a new apprehension, namely, of being overrun by the Japanese. The new treaty with Japan, which has just been negotiated, gives the people of each nation the right of free entry into the other.

The article presents information on political conditions of several nations. The fight over the tariff bill has already lasted long enough to show where the Democratic party stands. It always takes a few days for public sentiment to formulate itself and secure expression through public meetings, the columns of the weekly newspapers, and the other channels of its utterance. The peculiar feature of the political situation in Japan is that no party that wishes the least measure of popular success can openly support the Government. Individual Japanese may be found who will go so far as to say that the present Government had better remain in power until the existing parties have received a more thorough political training, but more than this they will not say in its support.

One of the amusing aspects of the collision of some of the best minds over the meaning of something so completely simple is that it broke; down altogether. The anonymity is supposed to envelop all communications to the newspaper correspondents by the U.S. Secretary of State and by the U.S. President. It was known in no time all over Washington what the President had said and it was immediately attributed directly to him without the usual camouflage of "those high in authority," "a spokesman of the Administration," etc. At the same time it was revealed that the correspondents were directly informed that in the opinion of the American delegation the agreement included: Japan proper.

Recently a professor in an educational institution of collegiate grade in New York City claimed that a class of his, composed of three hundred young Americans, by vote of 90 per cent of their number, recently agreed that a war between the U.S. and Japan is inevitable. Deeper, however, than any such increasing gravity about the meaning of war with Japan, there should be in the American people a clear knowledge concerning Western responsibility for such a war. While a few mad Japanese have been talking about yellow race ruling earth, the white race has although constitutes hardly one-third of the earth's population, it holds today by occupation or by government practically nine-tenths of the habitable area of the globe.

Allied and American military intervention in the Soviet Union seems destined to end, where it began, with the action of Japan in Siberia. An insupportable policy has completed its tragic circle. Because U.S. President Woodrow Wilson failed to follow the course originally laid down by him in the matter of Japanese intervention, people have been drawn into a net of intrigue and lies, and have used the power in support of designs contrary to every tradition and purpose of the Republic. The amazing fact is that Wilson himself, in March 1918, when Japanese intervention was first proposed, stated in perfectly clear and vigorous language the argument against it, and officially placed the U.S. in flat opposition to the policy.

This article focuses on various issues related to politics. The long deadlock between Japan and the U.S. upon the shipping question was two-edged, preventing Japan's full development of her yards for want of steel plates, and American use of Japanese-built ships in the submarine zone. Twenty steamers, aggregating 100,000 tons, are not much to obtain of a country which has well over 2,000,000 tons. Another dark conspiracy of the Washington Administration has been foiled. The plot to lynch General Leonard Wood was detected last week by some of the most eminent American newspaper sleuths.