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Japan's opposition party Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya speaks at the vote counting centre in Tokyo on July 20, 2025. (Photo by JIJI Press / AFP)
July 26, 2025, 4:17 am
Japan sees wins for far-right anti-immigration party that denounced ‘Jewish capital’
Sanseito’s leader, Sohei Kamiya, has denied being antisemitic; his party now has 15 seats of 245 in upper house
By JTA
Kinori Rosnow (Courtesy of Rosnow/via JTA)
October 1, 2024, 3:45 am
Meet Kinori Sugihara Rosnow: The Jewish player on Japan’s national lacrosse team
Software engineer converted to Judaism as an infant, ‘feels fully both’ Japanese and Jewish; is saddened by the antisemitism spike post-Oct. 7, set to play in the 2028 Olympics
By jacob gurvis
Nobuki Sugihara and family at a ceremony honoring his late father Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania in 1940 who issued transit visas that saved thousands of Jews (Times of Israel)
August 1, 2023, 8:42 pm
Researchers say Japan exaggerated the story of ‘Japanese Schindler’ Chiune Sugihara
In recent years, the Lithuania-based diplomat who issued thousands of visas to Jews became a household name – but is his lionization part of a familiar post-Holocaust phenomenon?
By Jordyn Haime
Rabbi Moti Grumach with some Hanukkah-styled Japanese koma tops and traditional dreidels. (Courtesy/Moti Grumach via JTA)
December 4, 2021, 11:50 pm
In Kyoto, traditional Japanese candles and tops get Hanukkah spin
Chabad emissary in Japan gives local crafts a Jewish twist, forging a connection between cultures and boosting small businesses hurt by the pandemic
By Jordyn Haime
Beate Sirota Gordon at American Japanese Festival in 1938. (Beate Sirota Photo Gallery/ via JTA)
January 6, 2021, 4:07 am
Jewish feminist Beate Sirota Gordon changed women’s rights in Japan forever
A new children’s book shows how her upbringing and bit of good, old-fashioned chutzpah helped a 22-year-old woman change a country’s destiny, and then keep mum about it for decades
By Maddy Albert
Rabbi Shalom Greenberg distributed thousands of masks and aid kits to Jews and non-Jews in Shanghai's Hongkou district. (Courtesy Chabad Shanghai)
March 16, 2020, 11:56 pm
As virus ravages Asia, Jews carry on through faith in God and fellow man
Despite longstanding measures to maintain distance, communities across China, Japan, and Korea manage to still come together — and are even planning for communal Passovers
By Rich Tenorio
Kristin Eriko Posner creates recipes that combine Jewish and Japanese culinary influences. (Courtesy/via JTA)
November 8, 2018, 1:58 am
From gyoza kreplach to mochi latkes, one woman mixes Jewish, Japanese cuisines
After converting to Judaism, Japanese-American home cook Kristin Eriko Posner founded Nourish, a web-based community and lifestyle brand celebrating cultural fusion
By Josefin Dolsten
The scene outside Tokyo’s Shibuya Station is busy and lively, as seen here on October 3, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz/via JTA)
December 11, 2017, 3:25 am
For Israelis in Japan, the North Korea nuclear situation is business as usual
Israelis may relativize the North Korea threat, but expat Americans are concerned about their futures in the demilitarized country
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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