USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -mokusatsu “” •ir-suru, v. take no notice of; treat. (anything) with silent contempt; ignore [by keeping silence]; remain in a wise and masterly inactivity.-Kenkyusha’s )/ew Japanese-English Dictionary, p.

Detailed explanation-2: -International news agencies reported to the world that, in the eyes of the Japanese government, the ultimatum was “not worthy of comment.” Mokusatsu, a word that we could very well translate as “no comment” nowadays, or “let me withhold comments for now", was translated as “let’s ignore it."

Detailed explanation-3: -Mokusatsu () is a Japanese word meaning “ignore", “take no notice of” or “treat with silent contempt". It is composed of two kanji characters: (moku “silence") and (satsu “killing").

Detailed explanation-4: -His one-word reply, in Japanese, was: “mokusatsu". That word is composed of two separate characters. Moku symbolises “silent” and satsu is “kill". His response was interpreted by foreign media outlets that the ultimatum was not worthy of a response.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hasegawa Saiji, a translator for Domei Press, also translated mokusatsu as “ignore”.