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Kinkaku-ji (Golden Temple) in Kyoto. Credit: Jaycangel/Wikipedia.

Jewish Americans visit Japan as part of diplomacy, culture tour

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On Monday, B’nai B’rith International announced the completion of a week-long trip organized by the Japan International Cooperation Center as part of the Japanese government’s annual Kakehashi Project. The project, funded by the Japanese Ministry of...

Japan to resume UNRWA funding

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Tokyo said on Tuesday that it will restore funding to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency. The announcement came a day after the release of an interim report into the agency’s neutrality and risk management. Japan, the sixth-biggest...
Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura and Israeli Economy and Industry Minister Nir Barkat in Tel Aviv, Sept. 4, 2023. Photo by Ariel Zenberg/GPO.

Cohen thanks Japan for sanctioning top Hamas terror chiefs

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Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen on Tuesday thanked Japan for moving to sanction top Hamas leaders, including the terror group's chief in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar. Tokyo also announced sanctions on Mohammed Deif, the head of...
World-renowned cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper helped create a large-scale symphonic work honoring the heroism of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, who helped thousands of Jews escape World War II and the Holocaust. Credit: Courtesy.

Yad Vashem-sponsored symphony celebrates Japanese diplomat who saved Jews during the Holocaust

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Samurai warriors live by the moral code bushido, or “way of the warrior.” World-renowned cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper, a half-Japanese convert to Judaism living in Tel Aviv, comes from a samurai background. So did Chiune Sugihara,...

Japan to trial Israeli, US drones

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The Japanese Defense Ministry plans to deploy Israeli- and U.S.-made attack drones in 2023 to defend isolated islands. The American-made Switchblade and the Israel Aerospace Industries’ Harop drone are expected to be deployed. Both are loitering...
A frame of "Fate/Grand Order THE MOVIE Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot Wandering; Agateram." Source: YouTube.

Jerusalem-inspired Japanese anime hit arrives on big screen in Israel

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Not just Naruto and Dragon Ball: “Yes Planet” and “Rav Hen Dizengoff” movie theaters in Tel Aviv this weekend were painted in the bright colors of Japanese anime in honor of a special screening...
Japanese Ambassador to Iran Kazutoshi Aikawa and Mahdi Mirashrafi, president of Iran's Customs Administration and deputy finance minister, sign a customs agreement in Tehran on Aug. 22, 2021, in the presence of Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (top left) and his Iranian counterpart (standing, far right) Mohammed Javad Zarif. Credit: Foreign Ministry of Japan.

Iran urges Japan to release billions in frozen assets

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Iran has called on Japan to release billions of dollars frozen in the country’s banks due to United States sanctions, Reuters reported on Sunday. The request followed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s meeting in Tehran with Japanese Foreign...
Japan’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Toshimitsu Motegi visits Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on Aug. 18, 2021. Photo by Yad Vashem/Yossi Ben David.

Japanese foreign minister views Children’s Memorial, honorary tree at Yad Vashem

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Japan’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Toshimitsu Motegi visited Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on Wednesday. Motegi toured the current exhibit, “Flashes of Memory: Photography During the Holocaust.” He also participated in a memorial ceremony at the...
An 11-month-old Japanese baby and her grandmother, left homeless by the tsunami, is treated by Israel Defense Forces Lt. Col. Dr. Amit Assa, a pediatrician, Lt. Col. Orly Weinstein, an eye specialist, and Capt. Galit Bidner, a certified nurse. March 29, 2011. Credit: IDF.

‘We will never forget Israel’s help’

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March 11, 2011 began as an ordinary winter day with gray skies for the 12,000 people living in the fishing village of  Minamisanriku. None of them knew that within several hours their world would...
Chiune Sugihara at his desk in Vilnius, Lithuania. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Honoring the Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews from Holocaust

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Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, a virtual event on Monday honored a hero often referred to as the “Japanese Schindler” for helping to save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust. Chiune...