AMERICAN-ISRAEL

Chamber of Commerce of Michigan

A Cocktail Reception

For Chamber Members and Prospective Members

• MEET fellow businesspersons for networking!
• HEAR about Chamber members who have initiated
or expanded business with Israel!
• LEARN about the opportunities for your company
to conduct business with Israel!
• VIEW the Detroit and Windsor skyline and
waterfront from a strategic position!

Thursday, August 19, 1993 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
MILLER, CANFIELD, PADDOCK AND STONE

150 West Jefferson, Suite 2500
Detroit, Michigan
(on the Conference Room Floor)

Best-selling books with anti-Semitic themes are common in Japan.

An Apology Sought
For Japanese Ad

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Advertising in The Jewish News Gets Results
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Los Angeles (JTA) — A large
advertisement in Tokyo's
leading financial newspaper,
claiming that Jewish finan-
ciers were plotting to topple
the Imperial family and
dismember Japan, has
drawn a demand for "an
apology to the Jewish
people" by the Simon
Wiesenthal Center.
The headline in the one-
third-page ad in the Nihon
Keizai (Nikkei) — Japan's
equivalent of the Wall Street
Journal —trumpeted that
"The stock crash, the high
yen and the political turmoil
(in Japan) are no coin-
cidence. After defeating
Europe, America and
Russia, Jewish capital is
now after Japan."
The July 27 ad was placed
by Daichi Kikaku, a small
publisher of books on econ-
omics and stocks, mainly to
promote a three-volume
series titled The Last
Enemy: Shoot Japan.
To indicate how far the
plot by "Jewish industrial
and financial groups,
centered around the
Rothschilds" had advanced,
the ad displayed a 5,000-yen
note.
An annotation affirmed
that the picture of Mount
Fuji on the back of the note
was actually an outline of
Mount Sinai, proving that
Japan's finance ministry
and the Bank of Japan were
already under Jewish con-
trol.
In his letter to the presi-
dent of Nikkei, Rabbi Abra-
ham Cooper, associate dean
of the Wiesenthal Center,
wrote that "It is difficult to
quantify the sense of shock,

anger and indignation that
so distinguished a Japanese
newspaper as yours would
stain its good name by
prominently displaying an
advertisement which gives
credence and respectability
to blatant and outlandish
lies about the Jewish peo-
ple."
Rabbi Cooper told the Los
Angeles Times that an ap-
parent resurgence of anti-
Semitism in Japan was link-
ed to rising hostility toward
the United States.
Anti-Americanism "is • the
way (anti-Semitism) keeps
its shelf life and its strange
acceptability in mainstream
areas," he said. "It would be
laughable if it weren't so
tragic."
The Los Angeles Times re-
ported that in a written re-
sponse to its correspondent's
question, a top Nikkei ex-
ecutive said that the news-
paper had a policy against
accepting slanderous ads,
but did not think that the ad
under discussion fell into
that category.
The publishing house that
placed the ad declined to
discuss its "Jewish plot"
books but asserted that "we
are satisfied that the author
checked his facts."
Japan appears to be living
proof of the axiom that one
does not need Jews to have
anti-Semitism. In a recent
survey, only 1 percent of
Japanese said that they
knew or had ever met a Jew.
Still, reported the Times,
"Japanese have a strong
attachment to conspiracy
theories and stereotypes
related to Jews."

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