Anne Frank comes out of hiding to edit her book in Tokyo

[Taro Toporific]

Who the flyingfuck would even care enough about this in Japan to trash 100s of books?

Anne Frank books become targets of vandalism at Tokyo libraries
asahi.com | February 21, 2014
Hundreds of books focusing on the most well-known young Jewish victim of the Holocaust, who moved a world with her diary, have been vandalized in public libraries throughout Tokyo.
Libraries in five wards and two cities in the capital have discovered more than 220 books relevant to Anne Frank (1929-1945), including her famed “The Diary of a Young Girl,” with pages torn out.
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[Russell]

Is it registered somewhere who borrowed those books?

[legion]

Is it registered somewhere who borrowed those books?

don't have to borrow a book to destroy it

In the UK people used to cut the illustrations out of old books and sell them to antique shops

[J.A.F.O]

Was ordered to read this in school. Easily the most boring book I have tried to read EVER! Kept falling asleep and finally said fuggit give me the F. Teacher was none to happy.

[After thought] ya know nowadays if I said that I would probably be charged with some kinda antisemitic hate crime...

[Coligny]

[After thought] ya know nowadays if I said that I would probably be charged with some kinda antisemitic hate crime...

Sort of... Just ask this guy...

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Dieudonné M'bala M'bala

[Yokohammer]

This puzzles me. It stands at 280-something books across multiple wards. It seems a little unlikely that it's the work of one person. Of course it could be, if that person had lots of time on their hands (and who else would do something like this?) and the necessary determination, but it seems more likely that a number of people are involved. That being the case, there would have to be some sort of message, which is still unclear. Anti-semitism in Japan? That seems a little far fetched too.

I don't get it. Maybe the lone nutcase scenario really is the most probable.

[matsuki]

Anti-semitism in Japan? That seems a little far fetched too.

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[Yokohammer]

Choko ... oh c'mon. A photo from the 1930's?

When did you last see or hear of any kind of anti-semite movement in Japan?
You occasionally hear rehashes of the "Jews control the world economy" theories, but I have not personally come across any racism that explicitly targets Jews (just foreigners in general, although it's mostly aimed at other Asians).

[matsuki]

Choko ... oh c'mon. A photo from the 1930's?

When did you last see or hear of any kind of anti-semite movement in Japan?
You occasionally hear rehashes of the "Jews control the world economy" theories, but I have not personally come across any racism that explicitly targets Jews (just foreigners in general, although it's mostly aimed at other Asians).

Not saying it's anything widespread but are you really saying it's hard to believe a group of Japanese could be guilty of this type of war crime denial and have a racial superiority complex? Of course it could just be some idiot FG or single Japanese here with a chip on their shoulder...just saying I wouldn't discount any theory.

[Russell]

My theory is that it's a right-wing J-nut who got pissed off at Germany's comments about the sex slave issue...

[Yokohammer]

Choko ... oh c'mon. A photo from the 1930's?

When did you last see or hear of any kind of anti-semite movement in Japan?
You occasionally hear rehashes of the "Jews control the world economy" theories, but I have not personally come across any racism that explicitly targets Jews (just foreigners in general, although it's mostly aimed at other Asians).

Not saying it's anything widespread but are you really saying it's hard to believe a group of Japanese could be guilty of this type of war crime denial and have a racial superiority complex? Of course it could just be some idiot FG or single Japanese here with a chip on their shoulder...just saying I wouldn't discount any theory.

You're shifting the goalposts.

I said nothing about war crime denial or racial superiority complexes. I did mention racism against foreigners in general.

I said I think that anti-semitism as a motive is unlikely.
And I asked whether you had heard or seen any examples of anti-semitism in Japan, specifically.

[Yokohammer]

My theory is that it's a right-wing J-nut who got pissed off at Germany's comments about the sex slave issue...

That doesn't make sense.
If someone is pissed off with Germany they wouldn't deface Anne Frank work.

[Russell]

My theory is that it's a right-wing J-nut who got pissed off at Germany's comments about the sex slave issue...

That doesn't make sense.
If someone is pissed off with Germany they wouldn't deface Anne Frank work.

The remark by Germany's officials was something like "Germany has dealt better with the holocaust than Japan has with the sex slave issue". This may have focused the attention to holocaust victims just to get back at Germany.

Does it sound irrational? Sure it does.

But we are talking right-wing J-nuts here...

[Yokohammer]

My theory is that it's a right-wing J-nut who got pissed off at Germany's comments about the sex slave issue...

That doesn't make sense.
If someone is pissed off with Germany they wouldn't deface Anne Frank work.

The remark by Germany's officials was something like "Germany has dealt better with the holocaust than Japan has with the sex slave issue". This may have focused the attention to holocaust victims just to get back at Germany.

Does it sound irrational? Sure it does.

But we are talking right-wing J-nuts here...

That's a possibility, but it's still an ass-backwards response that doesn't really make sense.

Of course whoever is doing this obviously doesn't have their head screwed on straight, so I suppose anything is possible.

~ Tapatalking ~

[J.A.F.O]

Sort of... Just ask this guy...

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Dieudonné M'bala M'bala

Seems like an interesting guy, I'd share a pint or two with him. I don't really have standards for drinking, just don't bore me

[matsuki]

Choko ... oh c'mon. A photo from the 1930's?

When did you last see or hear of any kind of anti-semite movement in Japan?
You occasionally hear rehashes of the "Jews control the world economy" theories, but I have not personally come across any racism that explicitly targets Jews (just foreigners in general, although it's mostly aimed at other Asians).

Not saying it's anything widespread but are you really saying it's hard to believe a group of Japanese could be guilty of this type of war crime denial and have a racial superiority complex? Of course it could just be some idiot FG or single Japanese here with a chip on their shoulder...just saying I wouldn't discount any theory.

You're shifting the goalposts.

I said nothing about war crime denial or racial superiority complexes. I did mention racism against foreigners in general.

I said I think that anti-semitism as a motive is unlikely.
And I asked whether you had heard or seen any examples of anti-semitism in Japan, specifically.

I'm just saying, "who knows?" Stranger things have come out of this cuntry...and yes, I have heard anti-jewz remarks here as well as the occasional "I'm Jewpaneeze" remark while laughing about being a stingy bastard.

[kurogane]

I have always been befuzzled by the huge undercurrent in all walks of life of mostly very casual anti-semitism in Japan, especially amongst stupid Japanese with intellectual or cosmopolitan pretensions. I have had innumerable people try to impress me with their knowledge of Our Attitudes towards The Jews. I always defend them, or at least discredit the crackpot theories and have had a few very disappointed drunks and a couple of very angry ones on my hands for it. The popularity of Elders of Zion conspiracy theories, the contempt and disgust most Japanese always feel for any victim, esp. a vocal one, and the old Cheap stereotype are all readily on display in virtually every place and situation I have ever been in Japan.

I find it befuzzling simply because, like YokoH seems to think, the whole issue is so utterly irrelevant to anything Japanese. Casual it might be, but invisible or nonexistent it is not.

At 280 books, it's probably a cell of very dedicated and indescribably sad nimrods looking to fly their flag.

[Yokohammer]

I have always been befuzzled by the huge undercurrent in all walks of life of mostly very casual anti-semitism in Japan, especially amongst stupid Japanese with intellectual or cosmopolitan pretensions. I have had innumerable people try to impress me with their knowledge of Our Attitudes towards The Jews. I always defend them, or at least discredit the crackpot theories and have had a few very disappointed drunks and a couple of very angry ones on my hands for it. The popularity of Elders of Zion conspiracy theories, the contempt and disgust most Japanese always feel for any victim, esp. a vocal one, and the old Cheap stereotype are all readily on display in virtually every place and situation I have ever been in Japan.

I find it befuzzling simply because, like YokoH seems to think, the whole issue is so utterly irrelevant to anything Japanese. Casual it might be, but invisible or nonexistent it is not.

At 280 books, it's probably a cell of very dedicated and indescribably sad nimrods looking to fly their flag.

That's interesting, and noted.

Maybe it's just that I usually don't hang out with salarymen, but I honestly can't remember having that type of conversation. Ever, in more than 40 years. Which is a good thing because I'd probably end up making some very nasty comments indeed (and I'm not even Jewish). The crowd I associate with does include some corporate types, but they're mostly artists at heart and doing something they're at least marginally passionate about. Not your average corporate drone (a group that I actively avoid).

I'm actually quite disappointed to hear this.

[kurogane]

I'm actually quite disappointed to hear this.

As we all should be. Jokes about French and Russians aside, I am not much of a fan of racism in general, but anti-Semitism drives me batty, and the Japanese version even battier, mostly because it really is so ludicrous. If anybody has paid their membership dues, surely it is the children of Abraham, who never did a damn thing to anybody and certainly not to the Japanese. BTW, I think the real history of it comes out of the Great Depression blame theories that were rather widespread everywhere at that time. It sort of lingers on like a received knowledge cancer.

Now, assuming Choko and I are speaking about similar things, it isn't in any way prevalent, or pervasive, as a real problem worthy of genuine concern; more like a surprisingly prevalent idiosyncratic brainfart I have had the misfortune to encounter with unfortunate frequency over the course of 25 years. The rednecks of all collar colours I can sort of live with, but trained anthropologists doing it suggests it is a noteworthy gene fault in their makeup. I have sort of looked at it as a pathetic attempt to display knowledge of foreigners or Foreign Country, combined with that peculiar Japanese affection for shitsimple conspiracy theoories that victimise an easy target. They are a rather cruel people at heart, after all, even though very many of them are also adult enough to control that proclivity.

Also, I can't remember if it was you I said it to before, but I admire and envy that sort of well insulated bubble you have constructed for yourself. I was never quite able to find the right insulation, and if I had I think I might have been more eager to stay. I really did have a sugary sweet situation jobwise, but the rest of it just never seemed quite worth it and I come from a pretty beeyotchin' place that is easy to come home to.

Protect that bubble, boy. And be Righteous Among Nations when you can.

[Yokohammer]

... Also, I can't remember if it was you I said it to before, but I admire and envy that sort of well insulated bubble you have constructed for yourself. I was never quite able to find the right insulation, and if I had I think I might have been more eager to stay. I really did have a sugary sweet situation jobwise, but the rest of it just never seemed quite worth it and I come from a pretty beeyotchin' place that is easy to come home to. ...

Does this mean that you have already made the decision and left Japan?

How long were you here and how long ago did you leave, if you don't mind me asking'?

[kurogane]

Yeah, I left several years ago, did a half and half thing for a few years, but lately I seem to go there for 3 months at a time, largely due to The Visa Thing, which I don't have one of. I was there for about half of 25 years, starting as a repeat WHV'er in 1987, before moving onto academic work.

To be clear, I do like it there, esp. Okinawa and Kyoto, and I do like Them. Enough so, or so I say, that I see no need to explain away every freak and foible with apologetic cultural explanations, which I find condescending and demeaning to them as a civilised people in their own right. I prefer acerbically affectionate observations, though They sure don't. They are the most Alien of First Worlders compared to our eurocentric places, which is pretty cool, especially from an anthropological perspective.

And I really, really like TonkAtsu (the pig, not the noodles)

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Hammer, there's a pretty strong strain of anti-Semitism in the Japanese media. Remember Marco Polo, the magazine shut down for running Holocaust denial articles? Or the frequent lectures on racial tolerance that the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Rabbi Abraham Cooper gives the likes of Shukan Post or the Nikkei for running anti-Semitic material? Japanese mainstream media is not averse to printing batshit crazy stuff about Jewish conspiracy material of the like that makes even Benjamin Fulford appear lucid. Let's not forget Japan's contribution to the Lod Airport Massacre, albeit more than 40 years ago now. But, probably due to energy concerns, Japan's Middle East diplomacy has generally focused on closer ties with the non-democratic, sexist, archaic theocracies or dictatorships than it has with the free and democratically elected governments of Israel.
Therefore....it would not come as a total surprise to learn the perpetrator is a Japanese anti-Semite.
Though not on the scale of French or Dutch who rounded up Jews for slaughter to make them look more attractive in the eyes of their German masters, there was an continues to be an element of Japanese society that can be fiercely anti-Semitic. Listen to some of the talk in financial circles. Or the entertainment world. Mind you, Japan can also boast of trying to resettle threatened people in China and saintly types like Chiune Sugihara showing support for Jews in defiance of their alliance with the Germans, which the likes of collaborationist France or the Netherlands showed no sign of doing.

[Coligny]

Also, I can't remember if it was you I said it to before, but I admire and envy that sort of well insulated bubble you have constructed for yourself. I was never quite able to find the right insulation, and if I had I think I might have been more eager to stay. I really did have a sugary sweet situation jobwise, but the rest of it just never seemed quite worth it and I come from a pretty beeyotchin' place that is easy to come home to.

Protect that bubble, boy. And be Righteous Among Nations when you can.

If, in order to live happily in Japan you have to create a bubble where you exclude 99% of the people that make the Japanese nation... You might be a bit of a masochist...

I settled with cats... So aside from the zoo escapee I'm married with i'm nearly the same... But the day trains start running late or mail don't get delivered I pack my furrkids and bug out to Saigon... (Ok, there is also the disaster side that I deeply enjoy here, I came for the quakes, typhoon, tsunamis and got a nukular meltdown for free... It's stuff that I might really miss somewhere else... Knowing that aside from Chicago and Detroit your are in one of the most dangerous place on earth where you are supposed to function like if everything was absolutely normal makes every day that end in one piece in your bed an accomplishment)

[Yokohammer]

Yeah, I left several years ago, did a half and half thing for a few years, but lately I seem to go there for 3 months at a time, largely due to The Visa Thing, which I don't have one of. I was there for about half of 25 years, starting as a repeat WHV'er in 1987, before moving onto academic work.

To be clear, I do like it there, esp. Okinawa and Kyoto, and I do like Them. Enough so, or so I say, that I see no need to explain away every freak and foible with apologetic cultural explanations, which I find condescending and demeaning to them as a civilised people in their own right. I prefer acerbically affectionate observations, though They sure don't. They are the most Alien of First Worlders compared to our eurocentric places, which is pretty cool, especially from an anthropological perspective.

And I really, really like TonkAtsu (the pig, not the noodles)

OK, that explains a lot. Thank you for being open about that.

If you're going to stick around you need, as you say, to insulate. But insulation doesn't necessary mean being oblivious. You can still see the snow through the double glazing, but you don't gradually go into a hypothermic stupor and lose all sensitivity. Maintaining the right balance is extremely difficult, and probably different for each individual, but for every foreigner a lot of "suck it up and deal with it" is involved That can get exhausting if you're not open to seeing the good along with the bad. Unfortunately the overwhelming trend among the foreign community seems to be to focus only on what's wrong and nitpick incessantly. In many cases ... the majority of cases? ... that just seems like an attempt to elevate oneself to some sort of position of righteous superiority, because looking down on a problem is much more comfy than being part of it. That bothers me as much as the very real problems that do exist here, so I'm always interested to know who I'm talking to and where they're coming from.

[Coligny]

Hammer, there's a pretty strong strain of anti-Semitism in the Japanese media. Remember Marco Polo, the magazine shut down for running Holocaust denial articles? Or the frequent lectures on racial tolerance that the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Rabbi Abraham Cooper gives the likes of Shukan Post or the Nikkei for running anti-Semitic material? Japanese mainstream media is not averse to printing batshit crazy stuff about Jewish conspiracy material of the like that makes even Benjamin Fulford appear lucid. Let's not forget Japan's contribution to the Lod Airport Massacre, albeit more than 40 years ago now. But, probably due to energy concerns, Japan's Middle East diplomacy has generally focused on closer ties with the non-democratic, sexist, archaic theocracies or dictatorships than it has with the free and democratically elected governments of Israel.
Therefore....it would not come as a total surprise to learn the perpetrator is a Japanese anti-Semite.
Though not on the scale of French or Dutch who rounded up Jews for slaughter to make them look more attractive in the eyes of their German masters, there was an continues to be an element of Japanese society that can be fiercely anti-Semitic. Listen to some of the talk in financial circles. Or the entertainment world. Mind you, Japan can also boast of trying to resettle threatened people in China and saintly types like Chiune Sugihara showing support for Jews in defiance of their alliance with the Germans, which the likes of collaborationist France or the Netherlands showed no sign of doing.

And our countryside bum is back on duty...

We didn't round up the Jews to please the Germans, we rounded up the jews because we hated the jews by ourselves. Go read aboot the affair Dreyfus to get the start of a fucking clue. Also back then, the government was lead by the Marechal Petain who was a famous anti-semite and anti-freemason. Since he also was the guy who nearly single handedly saved our asses from the Germans in 1914, he had quite a following.

[matsuki]

Now, assuming Choko and I are speaking about similar things....I have sort of looked at it as a pathetic attempt to display knowledge of foreigners or Foreign Country, combined with that peculiar Japanese affection for shitsimple conspiracy theoories that victimise an easy target. They are a rather cruel people at heart, after all, even though very many of them are also adult enough to control that proclivity.

This is exactly what I'm talking about. I've even heard it followed up by, "We Japanese have minorities too!" in a shitty attempt to relate to the whitey gaijin they think they're talking to. (Pisses me off even more when they start talking about "how short the history of amerika is." )

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

And our countryside bum is back on duty...

Took me a second to realize you were referring to me and not yourself then because I'm so unaccustomed to having to wade through your bullshit to decipher the meaning and you caught me out by writing clearly.

We didn't round up the Jews to please the Germans, we rounded up the jews because we hated the jews by ourselves.

I stand corrected...to an extent.

Gathering by the number of times the French have readily accepted the German faust and acted the bitch for an injection of Teutonic wurst, surely it must be time to admit that you guys really do enjoy it and any resistance is really only pretense, right?

[Yokohammer]

Hammer, there's a pretty strong strain of anti-Semitism in the Japanese media. Remember Marco Polo, the magazine shut down for running Holocaust denial articles? Or the frequent lectures on racial tolerance that the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Rabbi Abraham Cooper gives the likes of Shukan Post or the Nikkei for running anti-Semitic material? Japanese mainstream media is not averse to printing batshit crazy stuff about Jewish conspiracy material of the like that makes even Benjamin Fulford appear lucid. Let's not forget Japan's contribution to the Lod Airport Massacre, albeit more than 40 years ago now. But, probably due to energy concerns, Japan's Middle East diplomacy has generally focused on closer ties with the non-democratic, sexist, archaic theocracies or dictatorships than it has with the free and democratically elected governments of Israel.
Therefore....it would not come as a total surprise to learn the perpetrator is a Japanese anti-Semite.
Though not on the scale of French or Dutch who rounded up Jews for slaughter to make them look more attractive in the eyes of their German masters, there was an continues to be an element of Japanese society that can be fiercely anti-Semitic. Listen to some of the talk in financial circles. Or the entertainment world. Mind you, Japan can also boast of trying to resettle threatened people in China and saintly types like Chiune Sugihara showing support for Jews in defiance of their alliance with the Germans, which the likes of collaborationist France or the Netherlands showed no sign of doing.

Oh yes, I've seen that nonsense. There are even a couple of books about, I believe, but I have never run up against an average bloke on the street who overtly holds or expounds such views. I have always considered it a niche perversion that is pretty much negligible ... particularly when compared to some other "enlightened" western cultures. I know it's there, but the blip on my radar is tiny. Maybe I just haven't been in the right place at the right time, but maybe I'm just inclined not to make mountains out of molehills.

[Coligny]

Took me a second to realize you were referring to me and not yourself then because I'm so unaccustomed to having to wade through your bullshit to decipher the meaning and you caught me out by writing clearly.

I'm full of surprises....

Gathering by the number of times the French have readily accepted the German faust

You have stats or should I dumpster dive them out of your ass by myself ?

But it's cute when penal colonies escapees show their envy toward colonial empires with a glorious history by highlighting one of their few hiccups. Even if it start looking a bit like an obsession...

As Hammer said

Unfortunately the overwhelming trend among the foreign community seems to be to focus only on what's wrong and nitpick incessantly.

At least you got a catchy tagline "Welcome to australia, where everything wants to kill you"

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

You have stats or should I dumpster dive them out of your ass by myself ?

Three wars in modern history, two capitulations and a stalemate bolstered mainly by the blood of the English-speaking world.

But it's cute when penal colonies escapees show their envy toward colonial empires with a glorious history by highlighting one of their few hiccups. Even if it start looking a bit like an obsession...

I don't understand. Are you talking about Papillon?[/quote]

At least you got a catchy tagline "Welcome to australia, where everything wants to kill you"

There's also the innocent, archaic one about throwing shrimps on barbies. Your barbies, of course, butcher Jews.