|
After decades of distance, Japan seeks closer ties with Israel
| What was it that Donald Rumsfeld said about Western Europe? Israel's pivot to the East, and the East's toward Israel, continues. |
[IsraelTimes] PM Shinzo Abe visits Jerusalem later this month, as trade between the countries grows almost 10% in 2014
| “It did not escape Japanese industrialists and officials that Israel still has much stronger trade with some of Japan’s strongest competitors,” Lewi said. “At a time when giants like Samsung, Intel and Google are operating research centers in Israel, Japan is beginning to feel left out.” |
Reading his Japanese-language newspaper over breakfast, Rabbi Mendy Sudakevich spotted an ad for a self-help DVD titled ?Get rich like the Jews.?
?Almost anywhere else in the world, such an ad? ? published in several widely read Japanese dailies ? ?would have been deemed anti-Semitic incitement,? noted Sudakevich, an Israel-born Chabad emissary who settled in Tokyo in 2000. But in Japan, he and others said, it?s something akin to a compliment.
Posted by: trailing wife 2015-01-07 |
