Bidspirit auction | (JAPAN). ユダヤの人々 [Yudaya no hitobito.

(JAPAN). ユダヤの人々 [Yudaya no hitobito. “The Jewish People.”] By Norihiro Yasue . First Edition .Twelve photo-illustrated plates. pp. 13, 7, 217. Original printed boards. 8vo. Tokyo, Gunjin Kaikan Shuppanbu, 1937.     Norihiro Yasue ( 安江仙弘, 1886-1950) was an Imperial Japanese Army colonel who played a crucial role in the so-called Fugu Plan, in which Jews were rescued from Europe and brought to Japanese-occupied territories during World War II. He was known as one of Japan's “Jewish experts, ” along with Captain Koreshige Inuzuka (see lot 158). See Marvin Tokayer & Mary Swartz, The Fugu Plan (1979) and  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norihiro_Yasue.