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 ADVANCED RESERVATIONS REQUIRED BY AUGUST 16TH. For reservations and other information, please contact: Shelly Korner Jackier, Executive Director, at (313) 661-1948 The best prices of the year! SAVE 50% this quality 5 piece Brown Jordan Nomad Set! ALSO SAVE ON; • Samsonite, Delmar and more at 50% OFF! • Umbrellas are 40% off! BROWN JORDAN LU Cf) LLJ THE DE TR F- 24 NOW - Between Beck & Wixom Rd. 48700 Grand River - 348-0090 LIVONIA- Just West of Middlebelt 522-9200 - 29500 W. 6 Mile Rd. BIRMINGHAM - Across from 555 Building 644-1919 - 690 S. Woodward CASUAL i OUTDOOR ARNIM RI1577129 Completely Casualfir Over 46 lean STORE I-IRS: Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri 10-8 • Wed., Sat., 10-6 • Sun., 11-4 Advertising in The Jewish News Gets Results Place Your Ad Today. Call 354-6060 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." .