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Under the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Japan and the Jews during the Holocaust Era

By Meron Medzini

Book information

Publisher
Academic Studies Press
Year
2016
ISBN
1618115227, 9781618115225
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1153705 bytes)
Pages
236\237
Time added
2020-10-26 18:13:23

Description

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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