the signing of the Tripartite Pact in 1940 and other events prevented its full implementation. Ben-Ami Shillony, a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, confirmed the statements upon which Tokayer and Swartz based their claim were taken out of context, and that the translation with which they worked was flawed. Shillony's view is further supported by Kiyoko Inuzuka (wife of Koreshige Inuzuka). In 'The Jews and the Japanese: The Successful Outsiders', he questioned whether the Japanese ever contemplated establishing a Jewish state or a Jewish autonomous region. See also Abraham Kaufman, a prominent Zionist in Harbin Antisemitism in Japan Birobidzhan, a Stalin-era founded city for Jews in Soviet territory, bordering Manchukuo's Sanjiang Province Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who assisted Lithuanian Jews in escaping Nazi persecution East Asian Jews Hakko Ichiu Makuya, a Japanese-based faith initiative closely linked with Judeo-Christian beliefs and values Shōwa period Dachau-Austria death march, halted by Nisei U.S. Army troops History of the Jews in Japan History of Jews in Kobe History of the Jews during World War II Israel–Japan relations Racial Equality Proposal Slattery Report, an American proposal to bring Jewish refugees to Alaska Proposals for a Jewish state and territorialism Uganda Scheme References Sources Eber, Irene. Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish refugees from Central Europe: survival, co-existence, and identity in a multi-ethnic city (Walter de Gruyter, 2012). Gao Bei. Shanghai Sanctuary: Chinese and Japanese Policy toward European Jewish Refugees during World War II (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013) Shillony, Ben-Ami. (review). The Journal of Japanese Studies 40.2 (2014): 413–417. Goodman, David. Jews in the Japanese Mind. Free Press, 1994, . Kase Hideaki, Nihon no naka no Yudayajin. Levine, Hillel. In Search Of Sugihara: The Elusive Japanese Diplomat Who Risked His Life To Rescue 10,000 Jews from the Holocaust, University of Michigan, . Pallister, Casey J. Japan's Jewish "Other": Antisemitism in Prewar and Wartime Japan. University of Oregon. Sakamoto, Pamela Rotner. Japanese Diplomats and Jewish Refugees: A World War II Dilemma, Praeger Publishers, 1998, . Shillony, Ben-Ami. Politics and Culture in Wartime Japan, Oxford University Press, 1991. Shillony, Ben-Ami. "Defending Japan's Pacific War: The Kyoto School Philosophers". The Journal of Japanese Studies – Volume 32, 2006. Shillony, Ben-Ami. Politics and Culture in Wartime Japan. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. Sugita Rokuichi, Higashi Ajia e kita Yudayajin. Inuzuka Kiyoko, Kaigun Inuzuka kikan no kiroku: Yudaya mondai to Nippon no kōsaku (Tokyo: Nihon kōgyō shimbunsha, 1982). Jewish