Japan saved 17,000 Jewish refugees prior to WW II who could not find refuge in the West
Western attitudes toward Jewish people trying to flee Germany stripping its Jews of civic rights on the eve of the Holocaust were largely indifferent and bordering on negative partly because of Britain controlled Palestine at the time and did not want European Jews fleeing into Palestine en masse because of the potential trouble with the local Arabs.
U.S. Senator Boxer meeting Yukiko Sugihara, the wife of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat posted in Lithuania who wrote visas for 2000 Polish Jews allowing them to enter Japan until August 1940.
Despite intense Nazi pressure, the Japanese people and the Japanese government had a very different attitude. Thousands of Jewish refugees - up to 17,000 until mid-1939 - were admitted to Kobe where they were warmly welcomed by the local people. The Japanese government had reasons to win the sympathies of the Jewish people all over the world, particularly in the United States. Many high-ranking members of the Japanese government believed in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a Russian Czarist concoction of hateful propaganda intended to depict Jews as users of vast economic power and puppeteers of the world. This belief was boosted by the fact that the Japanese had been able to secure loans from a Jewish-American banker by the name Jacob Schiff who had provided them perhaps in reaction to antisemitism prevalent in Russian during the Russo-Japanese war in 1904. The Japanese government believed that by showing kindness to the Jewish refugees they could untap vast reserves of Jewish economic power and get influencial Jews in president Roosevelt's circle persuade him to relieve sanctions imposed against the US because of Japan's aggressive policies in Manchuria and China. The Japanese were also interested in settling the European Jews in occupied Manchuria to create "an intelligent and industrious middle class" for it.
Very interesting piece and follow up info in some of the comments below. I enjoy being taught new things, you never stop learning. It's sadly a part of a great many people to "help"when they will also get helped.
Hi Markku. Didn't know that. There is always an angle and a reason for a country doing something nice. there has to be a benefit. love to know how many Jewish people stayed in Manchuria and are still descendants from the original batch today. Did 2 posts on land marks in Cape Town.
To my knowledge that settlement program did not get properly underway. Most of the Jewish refugees in Japanese controlled territories were in the Japanese sector of the International Settlement of Shanghai. Japan only closed doors when that sector became overcrowded. There were and continue to be very few Jewish people in the whole of China.
Not overly surprised.It would be hard to start a community from scratch. There is a massive language issue as well.One of my friends is Jewish and they are generally excellent at business.
What things, that even at this point in life 2018, one keeps reading stories of all the things that happened in that second world war. After reading this publication, I asked God that this does not happen again.
However, I also tell you that yesterday, from Palestinian lands, rockets were fired at Israel in a provocative manner.
These mini wars affect many in that nation.
very intersting history jews,japan cuntry developers,
thanks
Country not cuntry. That is a bad word lol.
Jew (individual) -> Jewry (collective).
According to Urban Dictionary, "cuntry" really is a word.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cuntry
"According to Urban Dictionary"
Yeah, it means a country whose inhabitants are cunts.
But grammatically, it could mean all cunts collectively as in:
peasant -> peasantry or the already mentioned Jew -> Jewry
You are a classic. Very good lol. Sorry to hear you lost tonight. At least it was very close.
No reason to be sorry. I must have played something like 10,000 - 20,000 games of go. I'm not in a place to wallow in any negativity over losing a club game.
Good attitude. Was also like that with sports.
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