>>11618434>SamuraiReminder that the Japanese supported Zionism during the 19th century and the early 20th century (including all of WW2)
Their reasoning was that they should befriend this supposed group of powerful people instead of alienating them.
Manchukuo (japanese puppet state in northeastern china) alone had ~15000 jewish people, which is pretty big for somewhere in the far east
>The Jewish community in Manchukuo was not subjected to the official persecution that Jews experienced under Japan's ally Nazi Germany, and Japanese authorities were involved in closing down local anti-Semitic publications such as the Russian periodical Nashputhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_settlement_in_the_Japanese_Empire 