At the end of the nineteenth century, the world set off a wave of anti-Semitism, many Jews had to leave their homeland and flee to other countries, but there were not many countries that could truly accept Jewish refugees, only a few countries such as China were willing to accept them. When Japan occupied the three northeastern provinces, these Jews who fled to the northeast were ungrateful and intended to collude with Japan to establish a state in the northeast and implement the puffer fish plan, but fortunately the plan went bankrupt and did not succeed.
Jews who fled to the Northeast
The Jews are very intelligent people in the impression of people, they always hold the most wealth in the world, and there are more than two hundred Nobel Prizes taken by the Jews. But in the course of historical change, the Jews have long been discriminated against and oppressed, and are a troubled people. Before the founding of Israel, they had been destroyed for more than two thousand years, and they could only wander all over the world, relying on their wisdom to find a way to survive.
After more than two thousand years of exile, the Jews were not assimilated by any country, and even though they were repeatedly expelled and slaughtered, they were still able to find survival skills to survive. There are many reasons for the long-term expulsion and discrimination of the Jews, mainly from their sense of national superiority, their self-proclaimed god's favorite chosen people, the most superior nation, which aroused the antipathy of other peoples, and anti-Semitism was born.
In modern times, there has been another wave of anti-Semitism in the world, especially in Germany, where anti-Semitism is strong and various cruel policies specifically aimed at Jews have been introduced, resulting in the massacre of 6 million Jews. Prior to this, anti-Semitic and anti-Semitic sentiment in Tsarist Russia was also very high, and there were many campaigns to kill Jews, who poured into northeast China in order to escape for their lives.
The mainland has always been a very inclusive country, and in the face of the suffering Jews, they were not expelled, but gave them a safe place to stay in the northeast. When these Jews came to the Northeast, they used their business acumen to gain a foothold. After the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, the Jews who hated Tsarist Russia lent Japan a large amount of money to help them defeat Tsarist Russia, and the Jews established strong ties with Japan.
After the Japanese occupation of the three northeastern provinces, in order to obtain more money from the Jews, they planned to cooperate with the Jews who were persecuted around the world. At this time, the Jews, who had been in exile for more than two thousand years and wanted to rebuild the country, saw a new opportunity, and they were very interested in the Fugu plan proposed by Japan, hoping to stabilize the establishment of a state in the Northeast with Japan's support.
Plans eventually went bankrupt
Japan promised the Jews not to discriminate against them, and promised to set aside a piece of land for them to rebuild the Jewish state, and all the Jews had to do was to provide Japan with huge wealth, help Japan develop its military industry in the northeast, and promote the development process of the northeast. After listening to it, the Jews felt that this cooperation was very suitable for their needs at that time, and reached a relevant agreement with Japan.
Although Japan could benefit a lot from the Jews, there were also dangers, just like puffer fish are delicious and highly poisonous, so this plan is also called the puffer fish project. In order to ensure the smooth implementation of this plan, Japan has also repeatedly expressed its desire to cooperate sincerely with Jews and to attract more Jews to Tohoku.
Japan also established Jewish settlements in the northeast according to the agreed agreement, and announced that the Jews there would receive the same treatment as the Japanese, that there would be perfect living facilities and educational facilities, and that they would jointly build a new pseudo-Manchukuo in the northeast. Some Jews were invigorated by Japan's rhetoric, which provided a lot of financial support for Japan to launch a war of aggression.
However, Japan's whimsy was not realized in the end, when the American Jewish leader Weiss learned of Japan's puffer fish plan, he immediately saw through Japan's ambitions and attempts, believing that the Jews had been deceived by Japan and that this plan could not bring substantial benefits to it at all. Although the Japanese tried to communicate with Weiss many times, they were eventually turned away, and Weiss even said that any Jews who cooperated with Japan were traitors.
Weiss, as a leader with wide influence among the Jews, had a great effect on many Jews, and when the Jews saw the true face of Japan, the japanese cooperation plan was questioned, so the Japanese plan to envisage the relocation of a large number of Jews to the northeast did not go well. By the time of World War II, Japan and Germany and other countries formed a fascist Axis, and the implementation of the puffer fish program encountered greater obstacles.
The German Nazis were particularly resentful of the Jews, rejecting Japan's efforts to help the Jews recover, urging Japan to solve the problems of the Jews in China as soon as possible, demanding that Japan pull the Jews into hard labor or carry out exterminatory persecution like Hitler. Under pressure from Germany, Japan had no choice but to set up stateless refugee quarantine zones and imprison Jews inside.
Jews leave the Northeast
As Japan's situation on the battlefield weakened, the fugu project, which had been planned for more than a decade, eventually collapsed, and the Jewish hopes of restoring the country in the northeast were completely shattered. After the end of World War II, the Soviet army escorted a large number of Jews from the northeast to the Soviet Union, and the rest of the Jews also left the northeast, and the number of Jews living in the northeast was sharply reduced.
Harbin was once the most widely populated place for exiled Jews, and when Jews came here, they built synagogues, Jewish schools, and Jewish nursing homes. Because the Jews were good at business, they started a lot of business here and accelerated industrial production in Harbin. For the long-wandering Jews, this was their second home, reaching 20,000 at their peak.
After the Japanese occupation of Tohoku, due to various factors, the Jews who took refuge here planned to leave. Later, the Jews of the world formed a new state in another place, Israel, ending more than two thousand years of exile and finding a true sense of belonging. Most of the Jews who left the northeast also returned to Israel, and there are no more Jews in the northeast today.
During the war of aggression waged by Japan against China, in order to achieve the goal of plundering all of China, it put forward many unscrupulous aggressive plans, and the puffer fish plan was only one of its means to obtain benefits. It did not really want to really restore the Jews, but only to use the power of the Jewish consortium to finance its war of aggression. Fortunately, this plan was discovered and aborted, otherwise Japan's aggressive ambitions would have been even more inflated and the harm caused to China would have been more serious.