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February 19, 2019

The Thin Line between Philo-Semitism and Anti-Semitism in 20th-Century Japan

The Protocols made Jews seem appealing.

Sealed off from the rest of the world until the 19th century, Japan was one of the last countries in which Jews settled, and since then has never had more than a tiny Jewish population. As a result, anti-Semitism did not come to the island nation until relatively recently. Yaniv Pohoryles, in his review of a new Hebrew-language book on the subject, explains:

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