The publisher of a major Japanese magazine agreed to run an apology and a retraction for an anti-Semitic statement in a recent article. The Oct. 15 article in the Shukan Post, Japan’s second-largest weekly magazine, claimed that “Wall Street Jews” were behind an American company’s Sept. 28 takeover of a Japanese credit bank, adding that the “Jewish financial clique” will “eat up” Japanese taxpayer money. The company that publishes the magazine also agreed to a request by the Simon Wiesenthal Center to hold a seminar on the Holocaust and human rights.
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