Jews in the Japanese Mind

Jews in the Japanese Mind
Author: David G. Goodman
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780739101674

Why are the Japanese fascinated with the Jews? By showing that the modern attitude is the result of a process of accretion begun 200 years ago, this book describes the development behind Japanese ideas of Jews and how these images are reflected in their modern intellectual life

Under the Shadow of the Rising Sun

Under the Shadow of the Rising Sun
Author: Meron Medzini
Publisher: Jewish Identities in Post-Mode
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-02-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781644690314

Japan was a party to the Axis Alliance with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. However, it ignored repeated German demands to harm the 40,000 Jews who found themselves under Japanese occupation during World War Two. This book attempts to answer why they behaved in a relatively humane fashion towards the Jews.

The Fugu Plan

The Fugu Plan
Author: Marvin Tokayer
Publisher: Gefen Publishing House
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-05-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789652290403

If someone who is rich and powerful comes to you for a favor, you dont persecute him -- you help him. Having such a person indebted to you is a great insurance policy. There was one nation that did treat the Jews as if they were powerful and rich. The Japanese never had much exposure to Jews, and knew very little about them. In 1919 Japan fought alongside the anti-Semitic White Russians against the Communists. At that time the White Russians introduced the Japanese to the book, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion". The Japanese studied the book and, according to all accounts, naively believed its propaganda. Their reaction was immediate and forceful -- they formulated a plan to encourage Jewish settlement and investment into Manchuria. People with such wealth and power as the Jews possess, the Japanese determined, are exactly the type of people with whom we want to do business! The Japanese called their plan for Jewish settlement "The Fugu Plan". The fugu is a highly poisonous blowfish. After the toxin-containing organs are painstakingly removed, it is used as a food in Japan, and is considered an exquisite delicacy. If it is not prepared carefully, however, its poison can kill a person. The Japanese saw the Jews as a nation with highly valuable potential, but, as with the fugu, in order to take advantage of that potential, they had to be extremely careful. Otherwise, the Japanese thought, the plan would backfire and the Jews would annihilate Japan with their awesome power. The Japanese were allies of the Nazis, yet they allowed thousands of European refugees -- including the entire Mirrer Yeshivah -- to enter Shanghai and Kobe during World War II. They welcomed these Jews into their country, not because they bore any great love for the Jews, but because they believed that Jews had access to enormous resources and amazingly influential power, which could greatly benefit Japan. If anti-Semites truly believe that Jews rule the world, why dont they all relate to Jews like the Japanese did? The fact that Jews are generally treated as outcasts proves that people do not really believe that Jews are anywhere near as wealthy or powerful as they claim. It proves that anti-Semites do not take their own propaganda seriously.

The Japanese and the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel

The Japanese and the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel
Author: Joseph Eidelberg
Publisher: Gefen Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789652296597

Most of the Jewish nation was lost thousands of years ago. No trace of them has ever been discovered. In this startling book, a close examination of Japanese traditions suggests the possibility that the Japanese are the descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.

Japan and Judaism

Japan and Judaism
Author: YĆ«ji Sano
Publisher: Americas Group
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2009
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Japanese religious scholar and author Yuji Sano describes fascinating historic links between Jewish theology and Shinto mythology, along with uncovered tantalising clues indicating that the God of the New Testament is a different deity than the God of the Old Testament. Alternative sources are mined to expose stunning topographic changes, effecting major global land masses set to occur in 2010 that could offer the basis for a renewal of the former close Jewish connections to Japan.

The Japanese Mind

The Japanese Mind
Author: Charles A. Moore
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1982-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780824800772

A collection of essays that provide insight into Japanese culture. This book is a great buy for anyone interested in Japan.

Escape to Manila

Escape to Manila
Author: Frank Ephraim
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2010-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0252091116

A harrowing account of Jewish refugees in the Philippines With the rise of Nazism in the 1930s more than a thousand European Jews sought refuge in the Philippines, joining the small Jewish population of Manila. When the Japanese invaded the islands in 1941, the peaceful existence of the barely settled Jews filled with the kinds of uncertainties and oppression they thought they had left behind. In this book Frank Ephraim, who fled to Manila with his parents, gathers the testimonies of thirty-six refugees, who describe the difficult journey to Manila, the lives they built there upon their arrival, and the events surrounding the Japanese invasion. Combining these accounts with historical and archival records, Manila newspapers, and U.S. government documents, Ephraim constructs a detailed account of this little-known chapter of world history.