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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: muman613 on February 21, 2014, 03:35:14 AM
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I am saddened to read this report. For many years I have had respect for the Japanese people, and have worked for Japanese companies with Japanese nationals. But this report shows that antisemitism is a sickness which has no boundaries.
Holocaust denial has begun in Japan, as this story exposes:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/177711#.UwcO7XWx1pk
Scores of copies of Anne Frank's "Diary of a Young Girl" kept in public libraries across Tokyo have been vandalized, officials said Friday, sparking alarm amid a rightward shift in Japan's politics, AFP reports Friday.
Pages in at least 250 copies of the diary or publications containing biographies on Anne Frank, Nazi persecution of Jews and related materials have been torn, the council of public libraries in the capital said.
More than a dozen books have also been damaged at libraries in two other nearby areas, media reported.
"We have complaints from five of (Tokyo's 23) wards so far but I don't yet know exactly how many libraries are affected," Satomi Murata, the head of the council, told AFP. "We don't know why this happened or who did it."
"Each book had 10-20 pages torn out, leaving it unusable," said Kaori Shiba, the archives director at the central library in Shinjuku ward, where 39 books were vandalised at three libraries.
Toshihiro Obayashi, deputy director of the central library in the Suginami area, said 119 books have been damaged at 11 of its 13 public libraries, adding nothing like this had ever happened before.
"Each and every book, which comes up under the index of Anne Frank, has been damaged at our library," Obayashi said.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, the US-based international Jewish rights group, said on its website it was shocked and concerned.
"The geographic scope of these incidents strongly suggest an organized effort to denigrate the memory of the most famous of the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis in the World War II Holocaust," Abraham Cooper, the center's associate dean, said in a statement.
"Only people imbued with bigotry and hatred would seek to destroy Anne's historic words of courage, hope and love in the face of impending doom," Cooper added. "We are calling on Japanese authorities to step up efforts to identify and deal with the perpetrators of this hate campaign."
The diary, written by a Jewish girl who lived in Amsterdam during the time of the Holocaust, was added to the UN Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation's Memory of the World Register in 2009.
Yasumi Iwakami, a freelance journalist who writes on social causes in Japan, tweeted there had been sporadic "delusional" arguments about the existence of a Jewish conspiracy surrounding the Holocaust.
"But violence has not presented itself to this extent before," he said, calling the incidents the "advent of crude anti-Semitism".
The spree comes amid criticism of a rightwards shift in Japanese politics under nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, with a recent volley of provocative comments about Japan's wartime past that have sparked accusations of revisionism by China and South Korea.
Largely homogenous Japan does not have a very big Jewish community, with the vast majority of people believing in an admixture of imported Buddhism and indigenous Shintoism.
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Newsflash Muman!
The Japanese were allies with the German Nazis in WW2 and prolonged the holocaust.
And don't forget that right before their earthquake that they were storing nuclear materials for Nazi Iran.
The Japs are Nazis and will never change.
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This is no surprise, the Jp gov't still denies they murdered millions of innocent Chinese people including children in the 1930s.
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Two nukes weren't enough it seems.
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My Grandfather earned a lot metals killing these SOBs. He was an infantryman in Japan and the Philippines.
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They were never not anti-Semitic. Remember their alliance with Sh*tler?
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My Grandfather earned a lot metals killing these SOBs. He was an infantryman in Japan and the Philippines.
Thank G-d for men like him.
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Do you know WHY Japan was cursed with Fukushima?
Over and over and over, they have deplored Israeli settlements.
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Do you know WHY Japan was cursed with Fukushima?
Over and over and over, they have deplored Israeli settlements.
Shalom AsheDina,
Congratulations on the 'Hat tip' from Carl in Jerusalem on IsraelMatzav blog. I saw the credit to 'The Mad Jewess'...
Japan is sliding back to its dark days... Like much of the world seems to be {I am referring to Ukraine, etc.}...
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The big question is Who Isn't Going Anti-semitic?
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Folks do we know who actually did this?
Japan is not entirely one race.