On Japan and the Sovereign Ghost-State Hugh Byas, journalist-expert, and the manchurian incident

From: Journalism History | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: Oblas, Peter B | Copyright information

Hugh Byas, a historically overlooked but a leading and highly respected journalist in Japan at the time of the Manchurian Incident in 1931, had a long career connected to Japan of more than twenty years. Working for the Japan Advertiser and later the London Times and the New York Times, he formulated a template on the Far East, portraying Japan as modemizing and Chinas as Asia's "SickMan." He then shifted his cognitive script in the late 1920s, promoting Japan as an esblished entity which was...

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