Jews in Japan: Presence and Perception

Jews in Japan: Presence and Perception
Title Jews in Japan: Presence and Perception PDF eBook
Author Silvia Pin
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 232
Release 2023-12-04
Genre History
ISBN 3111338150

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Jews in Japan: Presence and Perception. Antisemitism, Philosemitism and International Relations is a study on the history of real and imagined Jews in Japan, which discusses the little known cultural, political and economic ties between Jews and Japan, and follows the evolution of Jewish stereotypes in Japan in the last century and a half. The book begins with the arrival of Jews and their image in late 19th to early 20th-century Japan, when the seeds of later stereotyped visions were sown. The discussion then focuses on wartime Japan, delving into the complex and mixed attitudes of the Japanese Empire toward Jews. In postwar Japan, the partial reception of the Holocaust intertwined with earlier antisemitic and philosemitic manifestations, resulting in instances of both hatred and admiration toward Jews. Finally, the book explores the recent reframing of Japanese-Jewish historical encounters within the context of the growing ties between Japan and Israel. This study sheds new light on the little explored relations between Jews and Japan, offering thought-provoking insights into the coexistence of antisemitism and philosemitism, the political and diplomatic uses of Jewish history, and the perpetuation of Jewish stereotypes in a land devoid of a local Jewish population.

Chinese Perceptions of the Jews' and Judaism

Chinese Perceptions of the Jews' and Judaism
Title Chinese Perceptions of the Jews' and Judaism PDF eBook
Author Zhou Xun
Publisher Routledge
Pages 224
Release 2013-12-16
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1136835164

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While prejudice against Jews is a real and ongoing category in Western culture, little attention has been paid to the myths of the Jews' and their impact in countries outside the West. This work draws on a wide variety of source materials from the past two centuries to examine the images of the Jews' as constructed in China. However, the interest here does not lie in the determination of the boundary between the real and fictional aspects of these images. Rather, it lies in the implications associated with the Jew' as an other', which remains a distant mirror in the construction of the self' amongst various social groups in modern China. Although it has been noted by a few scholars that the use of the Jews' as a category was important to many thinkers of modern China in the construction of their nationalistic and socio- political ideologies, this is the first systematic study in the field to be published. This book is also more than a historical book on China in that it opens a new arena for modern Jewish studies from a unique angle.

A Study of Jewish Refugees in China (1933–1945)

A Study of Jewish Refugees in China (1933–1945)
Title A Study of Jewish Refugees in China (1933–1945) PDF eBook
Author Guang Pan
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 352
Release 2019-09-12
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9811394830

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This book comprehensively discusses the topic of Jews fleeing the Holocaust to China. It is divided into three parts: historical facts; theories; and the Chinese model. The first part addresses the formation, development and end of the Jewish refugee community in China, offering a systematic review of the history of Jewish Diaspora, including historical and recent events bringing European Jews to China; Jewish refugees arriving in China: route, time, number and settlement; the Jewish refugee community in Shanghai; Jewish refugees in other Chinese cities; the "Final Solution" for Jewish refugees in Shanghai and the “Designated Area for Stateless Refugees”; friendship between the Jewish refugees and the local Chinese people; the departure of Jews and the end of the Jewish refugee community in China. The second part provides deeper perspectives on the Jewish refugees in China and the relationship between Jews and the Chinese. The third part explores the Chinese model in the history of Jewish Diaspora, focusing on the Jews fleeing the Holocaust to China and compares the Jewish refugees in China with those in other parts of the world. It also introduces the Chinese model concept and presents the five features of the model.

Mutual Perceptions and Images in Japanese-German Relations, 1860-2010

Mutual Perceptions and Images in Japanese-German Relations, 1860-2010
Title Mutual Perceptions and Images in Japanese-German Relations, 1860-2010 PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 463
Release 2017-06-06
Genre Political Science
ISBN 9004345426

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Mutual Perceptions and Images in Japanese-German Relations, 1860–2010 examines the mutual images formed between Japan and Germany from the mid-nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, and the influence of these images on the development of bilateral relations. Unlike earlier research on Japanese-German relations, which focused on the similarity of these countries’ historical trajectories, this publication presents a more nuanced picture. It relativizes perceptions of a special “spiritual relationship” between Japan and Germany as well as their commonalities of “national character” through an exploration of previously untapped historical visual and textual sources. With essays by sixteen leading scholars in the field, this collection is an invaluable contribution to the historiography of modern Japan and Germany, and to the field of international relations. Contributors are: Hans-Joachim Bieber, Fukuoka Mariko, Hakoishi Hiroshi, Iwasa Takurō, Katō Yōko, Kawakita Atsuko, Gerhard Krebs, Kudō Akira, Heinrich Menkhaus, Danny Orbach, Peter Pantzer, Sven Saaler, Satō Takumi, Volker Stanzel, Suzuki Naoko, Tajima Nobuo, Tano Daisuke, and Rolf-Harald Wippich.

Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Modern Japan: Imagined and imaginary minorites

Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Modern Japan: Imagined and imaginary minorites
Title Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Modern Japan: Imagined and imaginary minorites PDF eBook
Author Michael Weiner
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 496
Release 2004
Genre Political Science
ISBN 9780415208574

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From White to Yellow

From White to Yellow
Title From White to Yellow PDF eBook
Author Rotem Kowner
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages 707
Release 2014-12-01
Genre History
ISBN 0773596844

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When Europeans first landed in Japan they encountered people they perceived as white-skinned and highly civilized, but these impressions did not endure. Gradually the Europeans' positive impressions faded away and Japanese were seen as yellow-skinned and relatively inferior. Accounting for this dramatic transformation, From White to Yellow is a groundbreaking study of the evolution of European interpretations of the Japanese and the emergence of discourses about race in early modern Europe. Transcending the conventional focus on Africans and Jews within the rise of modern racism, Rotem Kowner demonstrates that the invention of race did not emerge in a vacuum in eighteenth-century Europe, but rather was a direct product of earlier discourses of the "Other." This compelling study indicates that the racial discourse on the Japanese, alongside the Chinese, played a major role in the rise of the modern concept of race. While challenging Europe's self-possession and sense of centrality, the discourse delayed the eventual consolidation of a hierarchical worldview in which Europeans stood immutably at the apex. Drawing from a vast array of primary sources, From White to Yellow traces the racial roots of the modern clash between Japan and the West.

Japan and the Contemporary Middle East

Japan and the Contemporary Middle East
Title Japan and the Contemporary Middle East PDF eBook
Author J. A. Allan
Publisher Routledge
Pages 196
Release 2005-08-18
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1134904444

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Access in English to Japanese analysis of Japan's energy policies, business ventures, diplomacy and economic assistance in the region.