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November 14, 2007
Are the Japanese actually Jewish? – Looking at the mysterious connections between Japan and Judaism
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wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhtttttttttttttt???????the japanese are jewish
Comment by Anonymous — November 14, 2007 @ 10:13 am
Israelites Came To Ancient Japan
http://www5.ocn.ne.jp/~magi9/isracame.htm
about hata(秦） clan
http://www.keikyo.com/books/hada/
The Iroha Syllabary
http://www2.plala.or.jp/wani-san/iroha.htm
http://ri.essortment.com/animejapanchri_rfdw.htm
a book of ancient Japanese history(ir was bublished in 1911)
http://kindai.ndl.go.jp/BIImgFrame.php?JP_NUM=40013257&VOL_NUM=00001&KOMA=174&ITYPE=0
Comment by hoihoi — November 14, 2007 @ 7:21 pm
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Pingback by Are Japanese Actually Jewish? : Japan Probe — November 15, 2007 @ 1:21 am
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article o.us poetry, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.
Comment by Daniel — November 15, 2007 @ 4:26 am
wow this is very interesting, so many similarities that it is no longer considered a coincident.
Comment by hehe — November 15, 2007 @ 10:08 am
Interesting Stuff… I’m curious to know what they’ll find in Tokushima…
Comment by japanqna — November 15, 2007 @ 10:35 am
lol fucking dumb!
Comment by Mitch — November 15, 2007 @ 10:43 am
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Pingback by The Japanese Jews « MaoChan — November 15, 2007 @ 10:54 am
wowwwwwwwwwwww..i like this issue..it made my hair rise for awhile..coz really u dont really know wht mysteries lies in all countries..amazing…looking forward for the next part 2..its just sad coz..the part one was cut..the video did not give us the whole conversation when they were already in the studio…keep showing this video plzzzzzzzzz..its amazing…
Comment by yvemarie — November 15, 2007 @ 4:48 pm
How AMAZING to read! I’ve always been told that I’m an Eastern European jew, and yet, I’ve never understood how I’ve ended up with Asian-like straight hair! Maybe, like I fell in love with a South American, one of my ancestors was Asian!
Comment by Meredith Fisher Villao — November 16, 2007 @ 6:12 pm
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I have read the story, and saw the video but as an Israeli jew, you have not convinced me. The videos are full of errors. actually, every detail is wrong.
What a load of nothing.
Comment by TheTool — November 17, 2007 @ 9:38 am
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There were many sephardi jews among the portuguese mariners trading with Japan. The word “Arigato” comes from the word “Obrigado”, which means “thanks”. Some linguistic contribution to the japanese language from sephardi traders is very likely, but the only close connection between jews and the japanese comes from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where the long desired weapon to crush Germany (Leo Szilard) came to be detonated.
Comment by bob — November 18, 2007 @ 2:29 pm
Very kool stuff. But can you upload all your videos on DailyMotion like you did with Part 1 of this? You can zoom Part 1 for full screen, but you can’t zoom Part 2, we have to watch it in tiny.
Comment by Heero14 — November 21, 2007 @ 9:46 pm
I totally agree with the Judaic connections, and Egyptian/Babylonian connections as well. Recently I did a photo comparison of the Japanese Royal Family, the Tsarist Russian Royal family, and the English Royal Family which allegedly are from the ancient House of David, of Israel.
http://img443.imageshack.us/my.php?image=victoriashowa2wu5.gif
http://img105.imageshack.us/my.php?image=royalscomparefv7.gif
But it goes deeper than that, I believe. Japan is known by three names, Neponset, Hehan, and Japan. Amerindian names from only the East Coast of America show the following tribes…Neponset, Niantic, and Shippan, “Where the spirit first rises”, “Where the sun first rises”. We are all the same.
Comment by Ed Ziomek — November 23, 2007 @ 9:42 am
I grew up Jewish in New York and have always been very fascinated with Japanese culture. Having been exposed to both for the last 15 years or so I must say they are very similar. I am not goign to speak to the validity of this article until more facts are presented but I would certainly believe a connection would be found!
Comment by beaubaby — November 23, 2007 @ 2:42 pm
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Pingback by The Japanese-Israel Connection « Lifeaholics Anonymous — November 23, 2007 @ 3:20 pm
If you are interested in Japanese Genetics also look at
http://oniazuma.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/idenshi/
Comment by oniazuma — November 23, 2007 @ 11:11 pm
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Pingback by Are the Japanese actually Jewish? | webstuff.baylon.ph — November 30, 2007 @ 9:43 am
here is another connection, jewish contributed to pornography in the USA and that is why perhaps Hentai literature and films are largely accepted in the japananese society
Comment by blackmachina — December 14, 2007 @ 4:17 am
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Man i love reading your blog, interesting posts !
Trackback by hisham abbas lyrics — December 14, 2007 @ 9:57 am
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
Comment by Idetrorce — December 15, 2007 @ 7:47 am
It’s on the Interent! It must be true! Somebody wrote it down and others cited it and commented and said it was interesting. It has gone from rumor to fact! Repeat often.
Comment by Who Ha — December 26, 2007 @ 6:50 am
before Japan made korean colony, Korean always memorized Dangun period’s age and ancestor. But when japan administered korea, Japanese upper person said japan have to change korea’s history because Korean nation have pride as a descendant from Dangun. So that times, Japan brunt most of korea’s history books or took away. only the number of books that is about Dangun(korea’s ancestor) was over 200000. Nowadays, by historical material it is more making clear and clear the Fact korea is lost tribe of Israle (Dan). God pursuit True. Not fake. As I say one of the evidence that Korean is dan nation, Sharon flower that showed in bible is Korea’s national flower. no matter how Japan insist they are lost tribe, but That flower can’t find in japan. and That flower can See in the route from Israle to Korea surprisingly. and there are many evidence. even though Japan took out Most of Korea’s material and make history dostortion. but God will judge them. Korean go missionary Work most many in the world (according to Rate-Korea1, as the number of people-USA 1, Korea2) how about Japan? only 1~2% japanese are christain and there is 3000 various superstition. There was holoy spirit in Korean peninsula in 1907. God chosen Korean nation. Korean nation always show what is miracle. Korean got suffering For 100 years currently. As soon as korean got free fom Japan’s colony , USA and russian made Korea divided and there was Korean war and korea became last divied country in the world. and even after that, military power always tried to occupy Korea(south). but See now’s Korea. 11th economic country, during shortest period Korean made miracle. and What World Saw in 2002 world Cup. Japan never accept their fault that They Genocided so many Korean even Japan was colony of Korea for 1500 years in the past. I saw one of the reason why Japan think they are originally Isralli, There was Pattern of japan’s national flower. thare is very BACK-JAE’s national flower. Japan is country that is crried on line Of BACK-JAE (one of the korea’s old country). ◆http://www.ytn.co.kr/_ln/0106_200707280459473647
This news was from one major Korean publisher. If you can understand Korean, please visit an above site. According to this news, Buyeo tribe (Korean) built a proto-Japanese nation after conquering Waegu.The more interesting thing is that it was proposed by the American scholar, John Carter Kobel. After Gojoseon, Buyeo was established and became divided later; Northern Buyeo and Eastern Buyeo.Buyeo, Goguryeo and Baekje were so close politically and they were the same family. Especially, Baekje was built by Seosono’s party, which failed to get the royal power in Goguryeo. Also, this scholar insisted that Gaya was also builted by Buyeo tribe and
we have to call not “three nations period,” but “four nations period.”
This doctrine is actually proved by many remains between Korea and Japan.
The scholar found out this factors through his study. Somehow, some Korean historians already knew about it and published books. However, this news article says that it was really surprising that the American scholar insisted this.◆
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7krYc9dg4aY
Comment by losttribeDan — December 27, 2007 @ 10:28 pm
There is probably like 0 japanese that think japanese are jewish or even know anyone thinks they are. It is mostly Israeli officials.
There is probably 0 people period that think koreans are jewish.
Im having a hard time grasping how your trying to say that Koreans are Jewish.
What do Korean Missionaries and Koreans being Christian have to do with Koreans being Jewish. When did Japan’s Military Power try to overtake South Korea. Who talked about some flower pattern in this video? You said absolutely nothing about how restored historical materials that the Japanese destroyed are making it clear that this dangun are Jewish. And your video links talk about the history of Korea which mostly has to do with China. lol
Why is there always a Korean that wants to compete with every even minor thing that has to do with Japan. I suspect maybe your one of those Koreans that will find anything Japanese and try to compete with it. lol
Comment by oniazuma — December 27, 2007 @ 10:36 pm
↑making history distortion is you guys national Project. because you don’t learn Real history. so you can’t talk about this. All of Japanese culture is from Korea. but Everything will be clear, Because There is surely God.
Comment by losttribedan — December 28, 2007 @ 12:26 am
You guys are same with Romanian Who got stringent Jewish. In western, Jewish got suffering. in East, Korean got suffering. At least, Germany accepted their fault about World War 2 and don’t make history distortion. but How about you guys? You guys even don’t apolize to us. even make history distortion. Even about Sex slavery, You guys never accept that crimial Act. I wanna say One common thing between Jewish and Korean. when there was Black plague and died 1/3 european, European jealoused jewish because only jewish didn’t get that diease because they followed God’s words (always keep clean). so Europen told a lied like Jewish poured poison into a water well and then genocided them. But in East? even You guys genocided Korean in korean peninsula. after There was suddenly earthquake in japan, japanese government told lie like Korean poured poison into a water well and make genocided korean. even Japanese get sin about this and they at least know in this accident over 7000 korean died, they never teach this to their child. God will judge you guys.
Comment by losttribedan — December 28, 2007 @ 12:40 am
Everybody! Every human! Be AWARE of Jews.
They can sell everything thing including HUMAN! In the name of GOD, they can sell GOD himself.
In the name of Christianity, they can exploit, buy and sell everyone’s soul. For example, if you come and watch Korea very carefully; you can know some interesting fact that how more than 75% Koreans are more Christian than Jews and other christians itself. Now, for south korea it’s better to give new name JewKorea. You can see Christianity as the money making process, because many many Koreans are giving 10% of their salary to CHURCH. Be AWARE! Be Conscious of such religious extremist. And very dangerous thing is, you can find many koreans just working for giving money to Church. If you ask to them, then answer is “as much as possible you give more money to church you will go to beautiful country (좋은 나라) after death”. What can be more foolishness than this.
I know, most of the Christians even don’t know the earth’s geography. So, what’s the bullshit they go on talking for be-fooling and exploiting human. Why they don’t allow human to live easily. Human can live and die without any GOD as well. And one important thing, most Christian are bound to hate other religions. This is very unfair.
In the world, Korea is second big country for Christian Missionary. This makes me thinking more than hundred times. What happened to Koreans. It’s very funny because they speak the language which is Chinese-based language but later developed by the Buddhists. So, the Korean language is completely different from Chinese in the sense of expression. Korean eats, walks, talks in the Buddhist way; most interesting even Korean christian PRIEST does the same. But they are so much EXTREMIST that they even broke the statutes of BUDDHA in Korea which is not less than TALIBAN who destroyed BUDDHA statutes in Afghanistan. Jews and Muslims are brothers who have been fighting for centuries. So, extremist Jews also have the characters which extremist Muslims have been showing even in America’s twin towers. Muslims destroyed america’s twin towers because America is no more only american’s America. It is completely driven by the Jews so muslims are fighting with America.
In Korea, I am tired everywhere because everywhere I am disturbed by the Christian because they give brochure, tissue papers and other marketing stuffs for their church. If I don’t want to receive, I should not be forced to take but in a way they force. On the road, inside subway, in many areas you will be encountered by the Korean whose job is marketing for the church. And one thing if you take members to church, then you will receive money from church.
In house gate also, many times these types of Koreans give ring. One time, two house-hold type of women came and started explaining their Christianity, in korean language, Jesus Christ is also called HanaNim (하나님). I explain the term HanaNim: Hana is a counting unit. Such as for one, two, three… (in Korean language, Hana, Dul, Set…).
For example ONE DOG in Korean is HANA GE(dog).
And Nim is used for honorific expression. For example, Mr. XYZ is XYZ Nim in Korean. There was fruit trees inside my house, they told this fruit is given by the HanaNim. They don’t need to explain who gave the fruit in the fruit trees. Whether Chriatian’s God, Buddhist God, Hindu God, Muslim God, American God, Chinese God, Japanese God gives the fruit in the fruit trees does not matter unless the person who provide caring to the tree. Tree also can not alive without human’s caring.
Finally, Jews have finished their mission in Korea. Japan is their second target.
All Japanese,……..Be AWARE! ……Be Conscious of JEWs.
By the way, I am not Japanese, Korean, Jews, or any other national. I am a simple human. I just want to live without disease of Nationality and without Addiction of religions. I am 100% not against JEWS, but certainly I don’t accept the poisons and addiction from Jews and not even from their GODs as well.
I have nothing against Jesus Christ.
Comment by Destroy_the_JEW'S-hypocrisy — December 28, 2007 @ 6:33 am
Don’t worry, No matter how Korea send God’s gosple in japan. it is useless for japanese. From early times, Western chrstain tried to let japanese know christains. It is hard to accept it for japanese. japanese are oiginally not interested in religion.
Comment by losttribedan — December 28, 2007 @ 3:57 pm
the moast funny thing that my dad looks like a japanese and we are jewish i dunno how or where from he got those genes…
Comment by tony — January 19, 2008 @ 4:14 pm
Dumb ass article. Now jews want to be japanese? LOL
Comment by DAI — February 9, 2008 @ 11:30 am
Come on everyone. It looks you are brainwashed by your education system both side. Many reason used in your argument is not logical at all, too emotion to be logical.
Comment by david — February 24, 2008 @ 2:30 pm
. . several outstanding researchers have independantly made the connection of early Hebrew influence upon Japanese society, the language development, similarities in religious beliefs particulalry shintoism and the Jewish faith, and on and on.
I dont think Japanese are Jewish – but it is indisputable that there is an enromous Jewish influence evident in their language and custons.
. . . the Jews were among the various peoples who travelled the silk road for trade -
Japan evidently was the end of the silk road and so it stands to reason that not only peoples from the middle east like Turkey, and peoples as far west as Italy, and Chinese, etc comes to Japan but also Jewish people traelled this route and likely have settled in Japan -as did the veru early Christians (keikyo) from Assyria.
Japan contratry to conventional Japanese thinking is really not a homogenous nation , but historically quite multicultural.
Comment by semperfi — February 28, 2008 @ 10:56 pm
We’re all related, because we all come from the two dimwits of Adam and Eve! Yeah! Fattam and Peeves!
GODDAMN YOU ALL YOU FUCKING BASTARDS! I’M GONNA BLOW THE HELL OUT OF WASHINGTON DC!
Comment by Monica McGraw — March 8, 2008 @ 9:33 pm
Sorry, but no.
Comment by KB — April 4, 2008 @ 9:37 am
I was actually raised by a Japanese Buddhist mother from Hawaii and a Russian-Jewish, Irish father from Beverly Hills. Perhaps the similarities between the two cultures is what actually helped me remain sane as I faced such adversity. Let’s just say that I had a very interesting childhood to say the least. If anyone wants to check out my latest article- go to http://www.interfaithfamily.com and type in ‘Matzah Sushi’ in the search menu.
Comment by Francesca Biller-Safran — April 29, 2008 @ 4:35 pm
wow this is disturbing!
Comment by The Secret — May 18, 2008 @ 6:48 am
hey lets watch this free
Its related to This
Comment by The Secret — May 18, 2008 @ 6:54 am
I have said this in past through other blogs: The theories here sound entertaining, but from my research, some of the ancestors of the Japanese are the Ebionites, early Christians who combined Judaism to Jesus’ principles, as there can be no changes to the Judaic ritual and traditions as seen in the combination of Buddhism and Judaism, as is what eventually happened. The only people that would change for the better were the Christians, who understood principle. Stubborness to ritual and word is historically and factually known to those that practice Judaism, so no, it is not the Jews, in terms of religion, that took the silk road to China and Japan, but Ebionite Christians, completely different people in race and religion, one from Galillee(people descended from Gaul), where Jesus’ word was most influential.
Isaac Kazansky
Comment by Isaac Kazansky — June 5, 2008 @ 7:40 pm
I’m of (supposedly) 100% Jewish descent, but if that’s true, it sure would explain why I received a rounding chorus of “MAAAAAAAAJI DE!?!?!? (SERIOUSLY!?!?!)” when I told a bunch of Japanese people that I’m not half-Japanese. I doubt it is, though, since I know quite a bit about Japanese history, dating back to a few thousand BC.
Comment by Sai — July 1, 2008 @ 2:22 am
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I’m sure all the Japanese will love the idea. I’ve never met a race of self-loathing people more than the Japanese. One year they think they’re related to American Indians, next year it’s the jews. Next year it’ll be aliens.
Comment by Anonymous — March 24, 2009 @ 6:57 pm
Did you hear the that Japanese royal family just admitted that it is true? They did descend from one of the lost tribes of Israel. The jews believe that the golden calf was destroyed, but it was not. It was brought by the tribe which was shunned and migrated into Japan via the silk road. It is Japan’s holy treasure. The secret to the royal family is that they passed the Hebrew language down through the generations. The reason that the Emperor is called the Sun God is because the Hebrews brought fire to the Japanese island natives. Note that not all Japanese have jewish ancestry. But it is prevalent in the royal family. Gion – Zion. The symbol of Shinto, the royal religion is the Star of David. Also note that the Japanese language is nothing like any other asian language. It has more in common with Hebrew and other languages of the middle east including Turkish. (Same sentence structure.)
Comment by Nancy — July 11, 2009 @ 7:53 pm
I was fascinated that indeed Japan is one of the Lost Tribe of Israel, yea, that could be true, but thorough researched is what makes it clear Japan a lost descendant of Israel. Seven most economic powerful countries Japan is one of them. USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Italy, France, and Japan and not to mention Russia is also included and later called G8. Why would this Group of Seven Countries leveled Economic Power in the World today? Because of the influence of the Jews of their countries. Could they be a Lost Tribe of Israel? God promised them! Where ever you set your foot will be yours!!! In the Philippines is where one of the Lost Tribe is located but only minority of its vast population. How was it related to Japan, Japanese Jews came to the Philippines to build bunker for the Lost Tribes of Israel. It is where they stored the wealth of Solomon. Now further research should be done to make a strong statement and credible information for all of us who seek to know the truth. Are Japanese a Lost Tribe of Israel? Well, If we know the truth; the truth shall set us all free….
Comment by Winkiepitz — August 29, 2009 @ 11:19 pm
I majored in Japanese linguistics and I can attest that at least on the linguistic side of things, there is a lot of misinformation on here.
First, ‘arigatou’ does not originate from Portuguese ‘obrigado’, as someone claimed. It is a polite form of the still-existing word ‘arigatai’ which originally meant ‘rare’ (lit. ari+gatai, ‘exist+difficult to do’) and then by extension ‘worthy of gratitude’. There is an old form of keigo (respectful Japanese) by which adjectives ending in -ai are changed to -oo, for example ‘wakai’ would become ‘wakou’, although this is rarely used anymore. The word ‘arigatou’ was used to show gratitude long before contact was made between the Japanese and Portuguese.
Secondly, someone noted that ‘ the Japanese language is nothing like any other asian language. It has more in common with Hebrew and other languages of the middle east including Turkish. (Same sentence structure.)’ Japanese syntax is extremely similar to Korean, and they are both vaguely similar to Turkish, Estonian, and other members of the Ural-Altaic language family. This has nothing to do with Hebrew, and Japanese does not have any noteworthy syntactical similarities to any Middle Eastern languages besides Turkish (which is actually Indo-European). It also has other (non-syntactical) similarities to several Asian languages (southeast Asian, Mongolian, Pacific Island, etc.) I don’t think a case can be made that Japanese has a genetic relationship to Hebrew, aside from perhaps a few lexical borrowings.
Also, the linguistic similarities presented in the video do not have me convinced. It is well-attested that Hiragana and Katakana are originally kanji shorthand, and it is easy to figure out both from historical records and simple observation which kana stood for which kanji. And while I can believe that a tribe of Israelites settled in Tokushima and influenced some aspects of art, religious customs, and vocabulary related to those customs, I find it hard to swallow that this one tribe in Shikoku would change such basic words in the vocabulary as ‘write’ and ‘take’ for the entire nation of Japan. And the word 拍手(hakushu, ‘clap’) is obviously from Chinese – it is written the same in both languages, the first character meaning ‘tap a rhythm’ and the second meaning ‘hand’. In Cantonese this word is ‘paaksau’, in Korean, ‘paksu’.
When comparing languages, it is easy to fall into the trap of fishing for random similarities and then deciding there are so many that it couldn’t possibly be coincidence. People have made this mistake many times throughout history. It is when there is a systematic pattern to the similarities, and when the similarities are not just lexical but also phonological/syntactical that it is worth our attention.
In order to test the veracity of this claim of an Israeli tribe in Tokushima, I would research further into the art history of the Hata clan (for more evidence of ‘Western-influenced art’ than a big-nosed mask), language specific to awa-ben (the dialect spoken in Tokushima), and mitochondrial DNA. I’m actually going to be living in Tokushima starting at the end of this month (and very close to the site mentioned – I have friends there!), so I wonder if I can find anything interesting!
Comment by Brianna — September 12, 2009 @ 1:36 pm
It’s a very strange, but interesting idea.
Comment by Alex — October 3, 2009 @ 8:57 pm