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Contents

PREFACE 9

PART ONE: Shared and Singular Traits

1 Chosen Peoples and Promised Lands 15

2 Affirmation of Life and Centrality of Nation 26

3 Security Lost and Security Assured 34

4 The Perpetuity of Emperors and Priests 39

5 Two Peoples of the Book 45

PART TWO: The Successful Outsiders

6 Seclusion and Explosion 53

7 Master or Genius? 62

8 The Rejection of Christianity 70

9 Anti-Semitism and Anti-Japanism 75

10 Salvation by Emigration 82

11 From Auschwitz to Hiroshima 91

12 Lessons of War and Postwar Miracles 96

13 Jew Baiting and Japan Bashing 104

PART THREE: Connections and Relations

14 The Jews and the Beginning of Modern Japan 111

15 The Legend of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel 134

16 The Jewish Role in the Russo-Japanese War 143

17 Japan Supports Zionism after World War I 151

18 Zionism Stirs Messianic Hopes in Japan 158

19 The Rise of Japanese Anti-Semitism 164

20 The Abstract Jewish Demon 171

21 Japan Saves Jews in World War II 178

22 Jewish Scientists and the Atomic Bomb 190

23 Jews in the Allied Occupation of Japan 194

24 Israel and Japan: A Developing Relationship 201

25 Japanese Attraction to Israel and Judaism 208

26 A New Wave of Japanese Anti-Semitism? 216

27 Prospects for the Future 223

REFERENCES 227

INDEX 237

PHOTOGRAPHS (on pages 113-128)