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Exceptionalism

  • Hakkō ichiuTanaka Chigaku coined the phrase Hakkō ichiu in the early 20th century. He drew from a statement attributed to Emperor Jimmu in the Nihon Shoki chronicle.
  • Jews as the chosen peopleThe Hebrew Bible opens with a series of binding agreements between God and Abraham, the patriarch who left his homeland to follow a divine command.