Jewish settlement in the Empire of Japan

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Jewish settlement in the Empire of Japan began as early as the mid-19th century, but was confined to relatively small numbers of Jewish immigrants from Europe and Russia. Shortly prior to and during World War II, and coinciding with the Second Sino-Japanese War, tens of thousands of Jewish refugees were resettled in the Empire of Japan. The onset of the European war by Nazi Germany involved the large-scale persecution and genocide of Jews, later known as the Holocaust, resulting in thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing east. Most ended up in Japanese-occupied China. Popular accounts of the resettlement plan have resurfaced in the 21st century on Chinese social media as an antisemitic conspiracy theory against China.

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