Japonesas are indeed lovely but the article is being a bit disingenuous in implying that Jews have been present in Gibraltar since the Middle Ages. Also as japonesas are practically the same as the custard filled Dorayaki you can buy in Yo Shushi! the origin of the name and the dessert seem to be fairly obvious and a little further east. What is this need to make up an ersatz Sephardi past? Or perhaps crypto-Jews took the recipe to Japan ....