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Under the Shadow of the Rising Sun

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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...
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Even before Japan joined Nazi Germany in the Axis Alliance, its leaders clarified to the Nazi regime that the attitude of the Japanese government and people to the Jews was totally different than that of the official German position and that it had no intention of taking measures against the Jews that could be seen as racially motivated. During World War II some 40,000 Jews found themselves under Japanese occupation in Manchuria, China and countries of South East Asia. Virtually all of them survived the war, unlike their brethren in Europe. This book traces the evolution of Japan's policy towards the Jews from the beginning of the 20th century, the existence of anti-Semitism in Japan, and why Japan ignored repeated Nazi demands to become involved in the "final solution."
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Price: $32.00
Pages: 236
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
Series: Jewish Identities in Post-Modern Society
Publication Date: 08 February 2019
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9781644690314
Format: Paperback
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Asian history, Second World War
"In this fascinating and highly readable book, Meron Medzini offers a sweeping overview of Japan’s ambivalent attitude towards the Jews living in its empire before and during World War II and the controversial treatment meted out to them."
— Rotem Kowner, Professor of Asian Studies, University of Haifa
Meron Medzini was born in Jerusalem and received his Ph.D in East Asia Studies from Harvard University. He began teaching modern Japanese history at the Hebrew University in 1964. Since 1973 he has been an Adjunct Associate Professor of modern Japanese history and Israeli foreign policy at the Hebrew University. Medzini is the author of six books and scores of articles.
Introduction

Preface

Chapter 1: Early Jewish Settlers in Japan

Chapter 2: Jewish Settlers in Japan at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

Chapter 3: Japanese Images of the Jews: Myths, Canards and Fears

Chapter 4: Nazi Antisemitism and its Influence on Japan in the 1920's and 1930's

Chapter 5: Japanese Experts on Jews, Judaism, and Zionism

Chapter 6: Japan and the Jews of Manchuria Beginning in 1931

Chapter 7: Passports, Entry Visas, and Transit Visas: Japan's policy toward Jewish Refugees (1935-1941)

Chapter 8: The Jews of Shanghai under Japanese Rule

Chapter 9: Jews in the Japanese-Occupied Territories during the War Years

Chapter 10: A Japanese Righteous Gentile: The Sugihara Case

Chapter 11: The Japanese Policy toward the Jews in Japan’s Home Islands

Chapter 12: "The Jewish Question" in Japanese-German relations, 1936-1945

Chapter 13: The Japanese, the Holocaust of European Jewry, and Israel

Selected Bibliography

References

Index