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The Selected Aspects of Jewish-Japanese Relations. The Face of Japanese anti-Semitism

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Hoborowicz M.

Security Dimensions: International & National Studies

2015

vol. 15(15)

157-180

There are many factors that significantly influenced the Japanese attitude towards the Jews. Certainly, the most important are: more than 250 years of isolation and cultural dissimilarity, mainly in terms of religion. Within a short space of time, after Japan was forcefully opened to the outside world – with knowledge of art, literature, technological achievements and political and social changes – the Japanese learned about European opinions of the Jews, including the religious ones. However, it did not have an impact on the Japanese attitude towards the Jews. Political developments in the late 1800s and early 1900s created an image of the Jew as an influential person with a great ability in finance management. Japanese elites were convinced that loans granted by Jewish banks contributed to the victory over Western power – Tsarist Russia. Western politicians realised then that Japan has become an important player on Asian political scene. What influenced the Japanese attitude towards the Jews were accusations of inciting chaos in the world – for instance the Russian Revolution of 1917. The Japanese became more cautious, especially when it came to the basic premises of the so-called Fugu Plan but it did not change Japanese-Jewish relations. This attitude preserved even during the times of the Japan’s seemed-to-be close cooperation with the Third Reich – although other countries would tighten their policies towards the Jews.

The faces of Japanese anti-Semitism. “A bubble anti-Semitism”?

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Hoborowicz M.

Security Dimensions: International & National Studies

2017

vol. 22(22)

165-192

The beginnings of Japanese-Jewish relations date back to the second half of the 19th century. Even though back then the Japanese treated the Jews and other foreigners in Japan equally, over time, a distinctive sense of separateness developed in relations between the Japanese and the Jews. Although those relations were developing in terms of Japanese culture, the elements of European culture were also influential, among the others, prejudices, stereotypes, reluctance, and even hate towards the Jews that developed over the centuries. The Japanese quite quickly learned about numerous views on the Jews that had an impact on their society. It is worth mentioning William Shakespare’s play The Merchant of Venice or famous in Europe The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. The influence of an antiSemitic Nazi propaganda should be treated in a different way; even though it had an impact on the perception of the Jews by the Japanese, it did not lead to the development of hate and its culmination: the acts of terror against the Jews. Starting from the 1930s, anti-Semitic publications were published in Japan and, with they are still published from time to time in the contemporaneous times. Since anti-Jewish polemics of some of the representatives of the Japanese world of science and culture from the 1960s and 1970s were rather unnoticed, what was the content of anti-Semitic Japanese publications from the second half of the 1980s – publications that attracted attention of the Western media?

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The Selected Aspects of Jewish-Japanese Relations. The Face of Japanese anti-Semitism

The faces of Japanese anti-Semitism. “A bubble anti-Semitism”?