IF YOU UNDERSTAND THE JEWS, YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THE WORLD
Masami Uno
Tokyo: Tokuma Shoten, 1986
(in Japanese)
IF YOU UNDERSTAND THE JEWS, YOU WILL UNDERSTAND JAPAN
Masami Uno
Tokyo: Tokuma Shoten, 1986
(in Japanese)
Japanese anti-Semitism? It seems impossible, and yet over the past two years explicitly anti-Semitic books have been selling in Japan like the proverbial hotcakes.
The most popular of the recent anti-Semitic authors is Masami Uno, the forty-five-year-old director of the Osaka-based Middle East Problems Research Center. Uno, who has written other books with titles like Great Prophecies of the Old Testament and More Great Prophecies of the Old Testament, professes to be a fundamentalist Christian and a minister in the Osaka Bible Christian Church.
Because of their popularity among Japanese readers, two of Uno's recent anti-Semitic books have alarmed Jewish residents in Japan, prompted the Israeli Embassy in Tokyo to protest to the Japanese Foreign Ministry, and brought an angry letter to Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone from an American congressman and senator. According to the publisher, Tokuma Shoten, the books, If You Understand the Jews, You Will Understand the World (April 1986) and If You Understand the Jews, You Will Understand Japan (November 1986), have sold 1.1 million copies; and although Japanese publishers routinely overstate sales in their advertising, even if the number of copies is only half what the publisher claims, sales have still been phenomenal. Moreover, similar books with titles like The Jewish Plot to Take Over the World, Secrets of the Jewish Powers that Control the World, and How to Read "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" have become so numerous that Japanese book stores have set up special "Jewish corners" to better serve their clientele.
Anti-Semitism and economic woes
Recent economic troubles are behind the current spate of anti-Semitic books. Over the course of the last two years, the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the Japanese yen has dropped precipitously. Where the dollar was worth 240 yen in September 1985, it is trading today in a range between 140 yen and 150 yen. This drop in the dollar's value makes it more difficult for the Japanese to export to the United States and makes U.S. imports more affordable in Japan.
The restructuring of the yen-dollar relationship was the result of a coordinated policy worked out between the finance ministers of the five leading industrial nations (G5), who met in New York on September 22, 1985. The policy was an attempt to rectify the U.S.-Japan trade imbalance by adjusting the rate of exchange.
Masami Uno sees it differently. The precipitous rise in the value of the yen, he says, was part of a premeditated plot by International Jewish Capital to destroy Japan. Since the revaluation of the yen will not achieve this purpose, Uno claims that the Jews, who, he
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