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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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