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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!
BindingHardcover, Paperback
Pages296
Published2004
ISBN-139789652293299
Weight0.5 kg
“Here is a spectacular plot for a motion picture: the dramatic escape across Asia, the intrigue of Jewish leaders with the Japanese and with the Nazi ‘Butcher of Warsaw,’ who followed them to Shanghai. Rabbi Marvin Tokayer and Mary Swartz met in Japan, laboriously pieced together this wonderful saga, and wrote it with the verve of a thriller, which it is.”
-Raymond A. Sokolov, The New York Times
“This is the only book on the subject, written by a rabbi who served in Japan and based on interviews and documents hitherto unknown. It is a fascinating and intriguing story, well written and supplemented by photos.”
-Jehuda Reinharz, Library Journal
“In all the literature on the Holocaust, there has been little on the story of the European Jews who trekked across the Asiatic mainland to find refuge in China and Japan. The Fugu Plan, an exciting narrative, which follows a group of refugees across Stalin’s Russia and recounts their experiences in a Japanese-Jewish ghetto, has helped fill that void.”
-Hadassah Magazine
