1868–1889), in some accounts called Norman McLeod, was a native of the Isle of Skye, Scotland known for his theory that the Japanese people descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel.
[2] The thesis of these extraordinary books was that the holy class of Japan is descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel.
The books contain extensive comparisons of the religious rituals of Judaism and Shinto as evidence of the links between ancient Israel and Japan.
[4] According to Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, MacLeod had been a missionary who spent decades in Japan and Korea "searching for the true Israelites".
[5] The following passage is an example from the book in which McLeod draws correlations between his observations on Japan and the fulfillment of biblical prophecy.