The Protocols in Japan
The Protocols in Japan
This chapter traces the long-standing presence of the Protocols in Japan, its natural alliance with a number of both Christian and Buddhist millenarian traditions, and the political—often imperial—schemes it helped inspire among its “believers.” The text enjoyed its heyday in the 1980s via the writings of a Christian preacher, Uno Masami. By assuring the Japanese that he could help them understand the world and Japan, he wrote huge bestsellers, and the Protocols got a respectful, even enthusiastic look in mainstream and academic circles. And despite the text's popularity, it did not necessarily translate into the atrocities characteristic of the Nazis; in some cases it led to alliances with the Jews and efforts to bring them to Japan so that the nation could benefit from their intellectual and cultural resources, illustrating that not all believers in the Protocols take it as a “warrant for genocide” against the Jews.
Keywords: Japan, Uno Masami, mainstream culture, academia, alliances with Jews
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