Japanese political and social workers held a conference this month in Tokyo devoted to the question of the complete elimination of Jews from the economic life in all territories occupied by the Japanese army, the Jewish chronicle reports today.
The report quotes a Japanese newspaper as stating that the conference decided a severe anti-Jewish measures “in reprisal for Jewish pro-Allied activities.”
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