The Fugu Plan: Untold Story of the Japanese and the Jews During World War II - Softcover

Tokayer, Marvin; Swartz, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 083480350X ISBN 13: 9780834803503

Publisher: Weatherhill Inc, 1997

Synopsis

If someone who is rich and powerful comes to you for a favor, you don't persecute him - you help him. Having such a person indebted to you is a great insurance policy. There was one nation that did treat the Jews as if they were powerful and rich. The Japanese never had much exposure to Jews, and knew very little about them. In 1919 Japan fought alongside the anti-Semitic White Russians against the Communists. At that time the White Russians introduced the Japanese to the book, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The Japanese studied the book and, according to all accounts, naively believed its propaganda. Their reaction was immediate and forceful - they 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!

About this title

About the Author:

Rabbi Marvin Tokayer began his rabbinic career in 1962 as a U.S. Air Force chaplain stationed in southern Japan. In 1968, he returned to serve as rabbi of the one-thousand-member Jewish Community of Japan, a post he held until 1976; he remains Lifetime Honorary Rabbi of the community. He also served on the Federation of Jewish Communities of Southeast Asia and the Far East and as Founding Board Member of the Sino-Judaic Institute. Consummate storyteller Rabbi Tokayer contributed seven articles on rabbinics and the Orient for the Encyclopedia Judaica; authored twenty books in Japanese on Judaica and Japan; and coauthored (with Mary Swartz) The Fugu Plan The Untold Story of the Japanese and the Jews during World War II.

Synopsis:

This narrative follows a group of European Jews who fled to the haven of Japan during World War II. It tells of their journey across Russia, their experiences in Japan and their survival in an Asian ghetto. It also describes a secret plan to create an "Israel in Asia" known as "The Fungu Plan".

About this edition

• Publisher: Weatherhill Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 083480350X
• ISBN 13: 9780834803503
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304