Engaging directly with the rich and growing historiography on the origins, course, and consequences of the Holocaust globally and in East, Southeast, and South Asia specifically, this volume provides a framework in which we can better understand how global traditions of empire and colonialism matter in our efforts to understand the Holocaust. From the Contents: 7. Transcending the Holocaust: Japanese Appreciation for Jewish German Cultural Intermediaries and Their Survival in Japan (Ricky Law); 8. The German-Jewish Business Community in Tokyo-Yokohama and the Relief Efforts for Refugees from Europe (Christian W. Spang); 9. Wiltrud Preibisch’s Japanese Diaries: A “quarter Jew” in Japan, 1937-1944 (Kerstin Potter).