aviation and ran donation campaigns for the funding of new aircraft, and as an official of the Kokuhonsha. In 1936, he translated "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" from French into Japanese. When the Ministry of Foreign Affairs founded a task force to study the role of Jews in international politics and economic affairs in 1936, Shiōden was appointed director. In 1938, he participated in an anti-Semitic conference in Erfurt in Nazi Germany and met with Julius Streicher the editor of the anti-Semitic newspaper Der Stürmer, in Nuremberg, The June 1939 edition of the paper dedicated a whole page to "General Shiōden , the anti-Semitic Japanese". In July 1941, Shiōden published "The Jews: Their thoughts and movements" (Yudaya shisō oyobi undō), with an introduction by the former Prime Minister Kiichirō Hiranuma. The book described Shiōden's claim that Jews in different countries held excessive behind-the-scenes influence over governments and economics for the secret purpose of world domination. Shiōden was elected to a seat in the House of Peers in the Diet of Japan in 1942, and held the seat until the dissolution of that body in 1946. After the end of World War II After the surrender of Japan, Shiōden was arrested by the American occupation authorities, and was charged with Class A war crimes but was released in 1947 without coming to trial. See also Antisemitism in Japan References Footnotes 1878 births 1962 deaths People from Gunma Prefecture Japanese generals Japanese conspiracy theorists Antisemitism in Japan Members of the House of Peers (Japan)