Good point. However, in 'The Fugu Plan - The untold story of the
Japanese and the Jews during World War II', M. Takayer and M. Swartz
explain that it is not out of philanthropy that
the Japanese welcomed Jews, but because they believed that Jews "had
access to enormous resources and amazingly influential power which
could greatly benefit Japan".
The Japanese never had much exposure to Jews and did not know much
about them. In 1919, Japan fought alongside White Russians against the
Communists, who then introduced the Japanese to 'The Protocols of the
Elders of Zion'. The Japanese read it up and, according to all
accounts, believed that its content was accurate. So did Hitlerian
Germany, which, unlike Japan, was exposed to Jews, and which, as a
result, decided to deport them, as many European kings had done as
early as the Middle-Ages. The Japanese, on the contrary, formulated a
plan to encourage Jewish settlement and investment into Manchuria.
"People with such wealth and power as the Jews possess, the Japanese
determined, are exactly the type of people with whom we want to do
business!"
The Japanese called their plan for Jewish settlement 'The Fugu Plan'.
The 'fugu' (blow fish) is a fish which contains deadly poison in the
organs. If it is not prepared carefully, its poison can kill a person.
Despite the risk, fugu dishes remain as special feasts in Japan. Even
the milt is considered as a great delicacy. It is said that the most
poisonous fugu, 'Tora-fugu', is the most delicious. Needless to say,
Tora-fugu is very expensive. Likewise, the Japanese regarded Jews as a
nation with a highly valuable potential, but, to take advantage of
that potential, they had to be extremely careful. Otherwise, the
Japanese thought, the plan would backfire, and Jews would destroy Japan.
Today, anti-Semitism is big in Japan, and glossy books on
National-Socialist Germany are best-sellers in certain circles.
In the second edition of 'The Doctrine of Awakening' (Vanni
Scheiwiller, Milan, 1965), which still remains to be published in
English, most of the references to imperial Japan which are found in
the first edition (chapter : 'The Ariya are Still Gathered on the
Vulture's Peak') were removed.
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evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "vandermok" <vandermok@...> wrote:
>
> In the book 'Histoire Inconnue des Juifs et des Japonais pendant la
seconde guerre mondiale' (Unknown history of the Jews and of the
Japanese during the WW2, by Marvin Tokayer and Mary Swartz, Pygmalion,
Paris 1979), we read that in 1941 the Japanese tried in vain to create
a state in Manchuria (the project Fugu) collecting the Jews persecuted
in Germany. Why this philanthropic idea also against the German
Allied? For attracting there the capital of the American Jews, and for
avoiding a war in which they did not believe.
> The authors are married and the man was a Rabbi in the Jewish
community of Japan. After the publishing of the book they decided
prudently to move to Israel...
>