Well, I just re-watched the portion of the DVD where he talks about this.  I cant clearly see what your opinion is on this, but anyways, he does say just what you said: that he committed himself to their culture, learned the language, etc, but was not accepted.... "Because I'm a Jew, to be honest..."  Check it out again and make of it what you will.  I say he's out of his mind.  But he is certainly entitled to feel miffed by the Japanese people if he so chooses....
 
In a message dated 7/30/2004 7:02:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time, efrendv@yahoo.es writes:
I might be wrong again, but I think that in Bookshelf
or elsewhere, Zorn has mentioned how Jewish people
believe that if they commit to a certain place or
country they will be accepted, something like that. I
insist, I might be wrong though.