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Juden unter japanischer Herrschaft : jüdische Exilerfahrungen und der Sonderfall Karl Löwith

1999

Discusses Japan's ambivalent attitude toward Jews, exemplified in three figures: the army officer Yasue Senko, the marine officer Inuzuka Koreshige, and the manager of the South-Manchurian Railway Company, Matsuoka Yosuke. They all wrote or translated antisemitic tracts; they had an exaggerated belief in Jewish power, especially in the U.S., and tried to turn it to Japan's advantage by promoting Jewish immigration and investment in Japanese-controlled territories outside Japan. The short-lived "Fugu Plan" called for a semi-autonomous Jewish state in Manchuria to support Japan's "New Order" in Asia. The Japanese Foreign Office instructed its ambassadors to collect information about Jews, and it set up a special section for Jewish affairs, with the participation of Yasue and Inuzuka. In August 1940, the consul in Kovno, Sugihara, distributed "transit visas" to thousands of Jews; although this action was against the directive of the Foreign Office, when the refugees arrived in Japan they were admitted and cared for not only by Jewish but also by Japanese organizations. Most of them acquired visas to other countries; only the Polish Jews, who had become stateless, were transferred to the International Settlement in Shanghai. Describes conditions there: overcrowding, unemployment, disease, and starvation. In 1942 the Japanese closed off the district, thus depriving its residents of finding work or food. The death rate rose until Shanghai was liberated in 1945. Pp. 77-106 describe the untypical case of Karl Löwith, a professor of philosophy, who, after being dismissed from his chair in Marburg because of his Jewish descent, received a call from Tohaku University in Sendai, Japan. In 1941, due to pressure from Germany, he was dismissed there too but was able to emigrate to the U.S. thanks to an offer from a college there. Originally presented as the author's Magisterarbeit, 1996. 129 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Vervaardiger
  • Pansa, Birgit.
Collectie
  • NIOD Bibliotheek
Type
  • Text
Identificatienummer van NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies
  • ocm43604961
Trefwoorden
  • Shanghai (China)--Ethnic relations.
  • Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.
  • Löwith, Karl, 1897-1973--Homes and haunts--Japan.
  • Jews--China--Shanghai--History.
  • Jewish refugees--Japan.
  • Jews--Japan--History--20th century.
  • Japan--Ethnic relations.
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