This work is about the swift process of acculturation of antisemitism in Japan - a Shintoist
Buddhist society with no Jews - in the decade following the First World War due to the impact
of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Major Japanese primary sources related to the subject
are introduced in detail and analyzed in the book for the first time in any language: the 1921
Imai Tokio-Yoshino Sakuz impromptu debate Higuchi Tsuyanoske's best-seller Yudayaka [The
Jewish Peril] the March 1929 roundtable on the «Jewish Problem» organized by the Heibon
publishing house and writings by Ariga Seika Soebe Inchinoske Yamanaka Minetar Kinoshta
Masao and others. This is also the case with most materials mentioned in the section on
Japanese awareness of antisemitism before and during the First World War. In addition the
author proposes defines and demonstrates the applicability of the term «Conspiracy and
Scapegoating Antisemitism» to both non-Japanese and Japanese milieux.
