Official German dispatches today quoted the Japanese newspaper Kokuain Shimbun as advocating anti-Jewish measures in Japan and the expulsion of many Jews for espionage.
It is recalled that in September Japanese patriotic societies formed a Federation to Campaign Against Christian Organizations, which passed a resolution branding Christianity as “a device of Jewish origin which is encroaching on the Japanese spirit and must be eliminated.”
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