Nobutaka Shiōden

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Nobutaka Shiōden (四王天 延孝, Shiōden Nobutaka, 2 September 1878 – 8 August 1962) was a

Diet of Japan
.

Biography

Military career

Shiōden was born to an ex-

anti-Semite and leading voice of anti-Semitic propaganda in Japan.[1]

In January 1920, he was assigned to the

Jews
.

A strong supporter of

IJA 3rd Division. In August 1929 he was promoted to lieutenant general
, and went into the reserves immediately thereafter.

Political career

After his retirement, Shiōden served in the largely honorary post as Chairman of the Imperial Aviation Association, which promoted the development of Japanese military aviation and ran donation campaigns for the funding of new aircraft, and as an official of the

The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" from French into Japanese.[2] When the Ministry of Foreign Affairs founded a task force to study the role of Jews in international politics and economic affairs in 1936, Shiōden was appointed director. In 1938, he participated in an anti-Semitic conference in Erfurt in Nazi Germany and met with Julius Streicher the editor of the anti-Semitic newspaper Der Stürmer, in Nuremberg
, The June 1939 edition of the paper dedicated a whole page to "General Shiōden , the anti-Semitic Japanese".

In July 1941, Shiōden published "The Jews: Their thoughts and movements" (Yudaya shisō oyobi undō), with an introduction by the former

Kiichirō Hiranuma
. The book described Shiōden's claim that Jews in different countries held excessive behind-the-scenes influence over governments and economics for the secret purpose of world domination.

Shiōden was elected to a seat in the

Diet of Japan in 1942, and held the seat until the dissolution of that body in 1946. After the end of World War II

After the

war crimes
but was released in 1947 without coming to trial.

See also

References

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  • Goodman, David G.; Masanori Miyazawa (1995). Jews in the Japanese Mind: the History and Uses of a Cultural Stereotype. New York: The Free Press.
    ISBN 0-02-912482-4
    .
  • Renolds, E. Bruce (2004). Japan in the Fascist Era. Palgrave Macmillan.
    ISBN 1-4039-6338-X
    .
  • Fukagawa, Hideki (1981). (陸海軍将官人事総覧 (陸軍篇)) Army and Navy General Personnel Directory (Army). Tokyo: Fuyo Shobo.
    ISBN 4829500026
    .
  • Hata, Ikuhiko (2005). (日本陸海軍総合事典) Japanese Army and Navy General Encyclopedia. Tokyo: St. Martin's Press.
    ISBN 4130301357
    .

Footnotes

  1. ^ Goodman, Jews in the Japanese Mind
  2. ^ Renolds, Japan in the Fascist Era
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