Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction to the Expanded Edition Chapter 2 What the Japanese Think of Jews and Why Anyone Should Care Chapter 3 Momotaro as Antisemite: The Cultural Roots of Japanese Images of Jews Chapter 4 God's Chosen People: Jews in Japanese Christian Theology Chapter 5 The Protocols of Ultranationalism: The Rise of Antisemitism Between the Wars Chapter 6 Jews as the Enemy: The Function of Antisemitism in Wartime Japan Chapter 7 Identification and Denial: The Uses of the Jews in the Postwar Period Chapter 8 The Socialism of Fools: Left-Wing Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism Chapter 9 A Signal Failure: Recrudescent Antisemitism and Japan's "Spiritual Condition" Chapter 10 Japan's Jewish Problem: Implications in a Multicultural World Chapter 11 Afterword: Culmination and Continuity: Developments, 1995-2000

About the Author

David G. Goodman is Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Masanori Miyazawa is Professor of History at Doshisha Women's College in Kyoto.

Reviews

An enlightening and thorough examination of Japanese notions of the Jews. . . . Jews in the Japanese Mind is not a book about Jews. It is a book about being different, about not being Japanese, about the vast array of people with whom Japan still struggles to come to terms.
*The New York Times*

This is a riveting study of one of the most surprising phenomena in the history of the Jews. Based on extensive and scrupulous scholarship, Goodman and Miyazawa have revealed how the mythological Jew can play a central role in a culture that has no Jews. This strange obsession reveals fascinating and often frightening dimensions of modern Japan.
*David Biale, Center for Jewish Studies, Graduate Theological Union*

By studying antisemitism and its reverse, philosemitism, Goodman and Miyazawa show that Japanese ideas about Jews stem directly from Japan's modern cultural experience. This unique study is an absorbing essay on relativism and universalism in the contemporary life of the mind in Japan.
*Tom Havens, University of California, Berkeley*

A serious, thoroughly researched scholarly work that not just explains the superficial side of Japan's bizarre fascination with "Jewish" themes, but presents a balanced historical survey of Japan's encounter with Judaism from the end of the Tokugawa period to the establishment of a Jewish Cultural Center in Tokyo [in 1994].
*The Instrumentalist*