Episode 389 - The Very Lost Tribes

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This week we're going deep into the bizarre theories of Japanese Israelism: the conspiracy theory that modern Japanese people are descended in whole or part from the same ancestors as Jews. I'll take you through the basics of these theories, with plenty of barely hidden scorn for their idiocy to light our shared way.

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1:09.9	Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast, episode 389, The Very Lost Tribes.
1:18.0	Recently, I had the great good fortune to be invited to speak at the synagogue where I grew up
1:22.8	to give a talk on a story we've discussed on the podcast before, the plan by some members of Japan's
1:28.9	military to try and rescue Jews from Europe during the Second World War.
1:33.8	It was a fun time, and I had a lot of fun doing it, but more important for you all, in the
1:38.5	process of boning back up on my research, I returned to a topic I talked a bit about during
1:43.4	one of the Q&A episodes
1:44.6	and decided it was time to give this story its full due.
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