ABSTRACT
The fact that there were few Jews in Japan and that the Japanese could not distinguish a Jew from a gentile did not prevent anti-Semitism from striking roots in Japan. Yet, Japanese anti-Semitism was never more than an intellectual fad, and quite often it was a mixture of admiration and fear. Accepting the anti-Jewish stereotypes of the Christian West, the Japanese came to regard the Jews as representatives of all that attracted and repelled them in Western culture.
