Sept. 23 is Lithuania's Holocaust Memorial Day that pays tribute to the victims of the destruction of Vilnius ghetto in 1943.

Prior to this national memorial day remembering the Genocide of Lithuanian Jews, a presentation of a book on Jews who escaped wartime persecution by the Nazis via Japan was held at the Lithuanian Embassy in Tokyo earlier this month.

Originally written in Japanese by Akira Kitade, the book titled "Inochi no Visa, Harukanaru Tabiji" was published in Japan in 2012. This year, its English version, translated as "Visas of Life and the Epic Journey," was released in June.