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FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1988

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Continued from preceding page

Conrad Giles emphasized
during the meeting that
"Federation had moved for-
ward" on the commission's
conclusions even while the
study was being conducted.
Giles listed programs sug-
gested by the study that have
already been implemented.
These include Jewish Ex-
periences For Families, the
upcoming move of the B'nai
B'rith Youth Organization to
the Jewish Community
Center and closer cooperation

between the two agencies,
stronger Jewish programs at
the Fresh Air Society and the
kashering of its camps at Or-
tonville and Brighton,
strengthening the respon-
sibilities of the community
shaliach and starting a high
school in Israel program,
Judaic studies programs at
Wayne State University and
the University of Michigan
and the formation of a U-M
center for Jewish communal
personnel development.

`Jew' Is Changed
In Japanese Dictionary

WILLY STERN

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okyo — Japanese
publishing companies
have agreed to change
dictionary
anti-Semitic
definitions of "Jew" after a
group of concerned Jewish
residents in Ibkyo pointed out
the problem.
The publishers said the
definitions, which included
such terms as "miserly,"
"pawnbrokers" and "stingy,"
were an honest mistake and
that they were unaware that
such words were not
synonymous with "Jew."
A survey of 105 Japanese
dictionaries revealed that
two-thirds had definitions
that ranged from mildly of-
fensive to extremely anti-
Semitic. The problem is par-
ticularly acute in Japan,
where dictionaries play a
more integral role in every-
day life than in the West.
In the autumn of 1985, the
International Committee for
Cross-Cultural Relations was
set up by concerned Jews in
Tokyo to try to change these
definitions. Committee
spokeswoman Eve Kaplan
said the final results will not
be known for years. Still,
Kaplan, who holds a graduate
degree in Japanese affairs
from Harvard University and
reads and speaks Japanese,
said she expects "significant
results."
The committee met some
resistance at first. But, said
Kaplan, "when we explained
that calling Jews 'miserly
and usurious' was similar to
calling the Japanese 'yellow-
skinned, greedy, economic
animals,' they got the point."
Many of the changes cannot
be made until the dictionaries
undergo another printing, ac-
cording to a major Japanese
publishing house. The
publisher said the definitions
were taken directly from
earlier Japanese dictionaries,
NNThich in turn were copied
from foreign dictionaries. "It

was an honestly imported
mistake," he said.
The action by the commit-
tee to change dictionary en-
tries stands in stark contrast
to the lack of effort by the
Jewish community in Tokyo
to combat the spate of anti-
Semitic literature that has
spread in Japan in the last
two years. Many of these
books have become best-
sellers. Books on Jews
represented 1 percent of book
sales in Japan during 1987.
Many short-term Jewish
residents in Japan, including
students and teachers, as well
as business and trade ex-
ecutives, have expressed
discontent with the lack of ac-
tion taken by the Jewish
leadership in combatting the
anti-Semitic book boom. They
cite an unwillingness to rock
the boat on the part of the
permanent Jewish communi-
ty and the Jewish elders in
Tokyo.
But the official Jewish
leadership in Tokyo says the
anti-Semitism is a passing
fad. The leaders maintain
that vocal efforts to squash
the anti-Jewish books will on-
ly call attention to a problem
that would otherwise fade
away.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Israel Watches
Saudis Closely

Jerusalem — Israel must
keep a close watch on Saudi
Arabian efforts to obtain
nuclear and chemical
weapons, but at the same
time, in the absence of clear
evidence that the Saudis are
equipping themselves with
nuclear weapons or are
preparing to deploy chemical
weapons on a significant
scale, Israel should refrain
from taking any actions
against the Saudis.
So stated Dr. Alex Bligh, a
scholar at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, at a