The Japanese dont know that they are jews??!!?

Question

Check out this websites about the ten lost tribes of israel:

(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/israel/losttribes3.html#japan)

And the strange cultural familiarities of ancient israel and Japan: (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/877114/posts)

Sample: Many of the traditional ceremonies in Japan seem to indicate that the Lost Tribes of Israel came to ancient Japan.

Here are some points stressed. In the site they have the pictures to prove it!!!

"Japanese Religious Priests "Yamabushi" Put A Black Box on their Foreheads Just As Jews Put A Phylactery on their Foreheads. "

"The Crest of the Imperial House of Japan Is the Same As That Found On the Gate of Jerusalem."

"Japanese "Omikoshi" Resembles the Ark of the Covenant."

"The Structure of the Japanese Shinto Shrine is Similar to God's Tabernacle of Ancient Israel."

My comment: "With this is mind I would like to have your opinion on this. I admantly believe that it cant be coincidence though.

Answer 1

Yes Japanese know the "story". You also can find Jewish symbol, double triangle, in some part of Japan.

However, no certain evidence.
Japanese enjoy listening it as a romantic story.

PS: One Japanese ambassador in Europe helped a lot of Jewish during WW2.
Leo Melamed, ex-Chairman of CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) is one of them.
What a coincidence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiune_Sugihara

Answer 2

The Falasha Jews in Ethiopia and other Jewish groups in Europe could trace themselves to Israel. How could the Jews in Japan with written record fail to do this. How could they be over 100 million? This would have been the highest concentration of Jews outside middle east and surely they should have had records.

Answer 3

You can't be a Jew unless you actually practice the faith.

Answer 4

they're not!