TBE Library via Hasafran wrote:
....moving... to Japan for a year to a city with no synagogue or
visible Jewish community.
Hyya All!
From 1973-1977 I lived in and taught english at the Yokohama YMCA, and
at an all-girl high school in the near-by town of Fujisawa (Japan). I
may have gone up to Tokyo maybe 4 times in all that time, because I
suffer from the paralyzing fear of being squashed in the 7th level
underground in a subway in an earthquake.
Though I can't be of much help without knowing exactly where the friend
is moving, there are two possibilities of finding something that
resembles a jewish community.
* The u.s.a. Armed Forces. Yokosuka and Zama are not far from
Yokohama. There are other army or navy or air forces bases in Japan
but far far far fewer than when I was banging around Japan during
the Vietnam conflict thing. So look up alll the u.s.a. armed forces
bases in Japan on the internet and contact them about the jewish
commuinites (if any) that may exist today.
* Shabuya (Tokyo)
https://www.cjnews.com/uncategorized/tale-two-chabads-tokyo There
are two jabad (that don't talk to each other) and one non-jabad
synagogue. These did not exist when I was there but I had the
now-closed Yokohama Navy Base nearby with a rather biggish jewish
community. I met, can't remember how, a medical doctor who got me on
and off the base for Rosh haShana and Yom Kipur. I may have also
gone to one Seder. The trick is getting someone with access to
whichever military base to accompany you while you are on that base.
* YOUTUBE: the closest thing to a book. The fist YOUTUBE was done in
2019 and the second in 2014. Not a whole lot of information but it's
a start. Unfortunately just like here in Spain, the jewish
population is so fluid that almost all info is out of date before it
is published even on the internet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMoJYDluyxQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WN57HNwNtU
Happy Januka!
Hugz
Alba Toscano
Sinagoga La Javurá
c/Baró de Patraix, 13, pta 3
46018 Valencia (SPAIN)
www.lajavura.org
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