Japanese-Jewish common ancestry theory: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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==Impact in Japan==

These theories had little impact in Japan,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Goodman|first1=David G.|authorlink1=David G. Goodman|last2= Miyazawa|first2=Masanori|title=Jews in the Japanese Mind: The History and Uses of a Cultural Stereotype|year=1996|publisher=The Free Press|isbn=978-0-02-912482-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R_PQLj2D1DQC&pg=PA59 |page=60}}</ref> although recently they were translated into Japanese and published in Japan.<ref>Takahashi and McLeod 1997.</ref><ref>McLeod and Kubo 2004.</ref>. Other books, by [[Joseph Eidelberg]], which support these theories, were translated to Japanese, sold in over 40,000 copies and covered in a Japanese Television series of seven episodes. <ref> {{cite AV media |people= Hiroshi Hayashi|date= July 11, 2019|title= The lost ten tribes of Israel + Japan|trans-title= |medium= |language= English, Japanese|url=https://www.youtube.com./watch?v=A493nqP6HqM |access-date= |archive-url= |archive-date= |format= |time= 0-3:29 / 55:16|location= Hamamatsu-city, Japan |publisher= YouTube|id= |isbn= |oclc= |quote= |ref=}}</ref> <ref>{{cite AV media |date= August 21, 2011 |title= "The Roots of Japan Were Ancient Israel!?"|language=ja |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLc30VSPdgY |location=Japan |publisher= iSkySoft }}</ref>

However, in 1908, [[P. Y. Saeki|Saeki Yoshiro]] (1872–1965), a professor at [[Waseda University]], published a book in which he developed a variant on the theory. Yoshiro was an expert on Japanese [[Nestorianism]]. Saeki theorised that the [[Hata clan]], which arrived from Korea and settled in Japan in the third century, was a Jewish-Nestorian tribe. According to [[Ben-Ami Shillony]], "Saeki's writings spread the theory about 'the common ancestry of the Japanese and the Jews' (''Nichi-Yu dosoron'') in Japan, a theory that was endorsed by some Christian groups."<ref>Shillony, pp. 136–137</ref>