This page shows all the good deeds Japan did to save others and stand against discrimination.
¶ Japan was against anti- semitism and save Jewish
Japan allied with Germany to match against Soviet communist. But this doesn't mean Japan was against Jewish people. Fact is the entire Japanese government tried to save Jewish people.
Yosuke Matsuoka told Jewish people that Nazi anti-semetism policy won't affect Japan, and Japan will not let Jewish people get a harm because of their race under Japanese territory. After WW2, Matsuoka was arrested as Class A criminal, and died in 1948. He was honored in Yasukuni Shrine.
A Lesser-Known “Japanese Schindler”: Lieutenant General Higuchi Kiichirō who saved Jewish.
¶ Japan proposed Racial Equality in 1919
At the Paris Peace Conference on April 11, 1919, Japan proposed an amendment to the League of Nations covenant supporting the principle of "the equality of nations and the just treatment of all persons." Although it won a majority vote, it was blocked by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.
¶ African American perspective in 1936
Du Bois, African American visited Japan, Shanghai, and Manchoukuo. This is what he thought.
In Japan, people treated White and Black equally.
In Shanghai, 4 years old white kid ordered three Chinese to get away, which is the same as in Mississippi.
In Manchoukuo, no apparent discrimination.
¶ Japan save Polish kids from Siberia 1919-1929