Jeremy Maddux’s Reviews > The Fugu Plan: The Untold Story of The Japanese And The Jews During World War II > Status Update

The Japanese made their offer to the World Jewish Congress in New York. To their amazement, and disappointment, they were unceremoniously turned down. The militarists won the debate, the "Fugu Plan" failed and died.

'Thus was born the "Fugu Plan"- designed to take in Europe's Jews, deliver them from the Nazis and those seeking to exterminate them, and bring them by the tens of thousands to Manchuria and Japanese territory. The Japanese could populate the sparse land they had conquered but could not occupy, and, at the same time, staff themselves with talented people who could build their businesses.'