Language:
English
Year of publication:
1987
Titel der Quelle:
Midstream
Angaben zur Quelle:
33,3 (1987) 23-28
Keywords:
Antisemitism
;
Jews History 1939-1945
Abstract:
During the 19th century antisemitic literary stereotypes were imported into Japan from the West. After 1918 the dissatisfaction of nationalist circles with democracy, their belief in a special mission of the Japanese people, and their objection to anything foreign paralleled developments in Germany. Shows how antisemitism can arise "in an environment free of Jews, but swept by fascism." From 1933-37 liberal Japanese journalists were opposed to Nazi racism and brutality. In 1937 favorable biographies of Hitler and antisemitic Nazi propaganda flooded Japan. Rebuttal of that propaganda declined, and finally disappeared altogether. Gives examples of Japanese intellectuals who became antisemitic in the 1930s. The masses, however, were not moved by antisemitism, probably due to the lack of contact with Jews. But the verbal war against the Jews was violent.
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