National Oct 15, 2020
Campaigners are raising funds to preserve the former office of a Japanese diplomat who saved Jews during World War II.
National / History Aug 10, 2020
Jewish refugee's wartime escape from Nazis, aided by Japan diplomat, highlights unsung heroes
by Magdalena Osumi
Around 300 people are believed to have traveled through Japan with visas issued by Yoshitsugu Tatekawa and other Japanese officials.
Basketball | HOOP SCOOP Aug 2, 2019
Bill Bradley details Chiune Sugihara's heroism in award-winning radio documentary
by Ed Odeven
Bill Bradley, captain of the U.S. gold medal-winning basketball team at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, was recently involved in another winning (and historically important) project with ties to Japan. And it has nothing to do with basketball. The weekly satellite radio program "American Voices with Senator ...
National / Politics Oct 12, 2018
Japan and Lithuania agree to boost bilateral economic cooperation
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Lithuanian counterpart Saulius Skvernelis agreed Friday to promote bilateral economic cooperation as a free trade agreement signed by Japan and the European Union in July is expected to help expand exchanges of goods between the two countries. Abe told ...
National Feb 2, 2018
Kin of Japanese diplomat who helped Jews escape Nazi persecution work to keep his legacy alive
Madoka Sugihara never had a chance to hear directly from her grandfather, Chiune Sugihara, about his heroic effort as a diplomat during World War II to issue visas allowing thousands of Jews to escape Nazi persecution. But through the stories of the offspring of the ...
National / History Oct 30, 2017
UNESCO panel to back records on Korean envoys' Japan visits for Memory of the World
A UNESCO panel plans to recommend adding centuries-old diplomatic records concerning visits by Korean envoys to Japan to its Memory of the World Register, Japanese and South Korean sources close to the matter said Monday. Director-General Irina Bokova of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural ...
National May 12, 2017
Siblings retrace role of Japanese diplomat in mother's escape from Holocaust
by Magdalena Osumi
Tracing the path of their mother, who escaped the Holocaust with help from some defiant Japanese, New Yorkers Deborah and Shelley Reed experienced myriad emotions on their first visit to Japan during the peak cherry blossom season last month. It was around the same time ...
Film Aug 24, 2016
Documentary sheds light on Japanese who helped Jews escape Holocaust
by Keiji Hirano
A London-based Japanese actor has created a short documentary film that sheds light on individuals who helped Jews escape from Nazi persecution as well as those who have worked to see that this history is passed on. "There was a Japanese diplomat who issued visas ...
National Sep 24, 2015
Japan seeks UNESCO recognition for ancient stone monuments and diplomat who saved 6,000 Jews
Japan will file the applications next March with the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, with a decision expected in summer 2017.
National / History Jul 11, 2015
Chiune Sugihara: man of conscience
by Roger Pulvers
Chiune Sugihara, Japanese consul in Kaunas, Lithuania, awoke on the morning of July 18, 1940, to a disturbing sight. He peered through the curtains of his bedroom window just before 6 a.m. Sugihara and his wife had been living in the consulate building since ...
National / History Jun 18, 2015
Hometown of Japan diplomat who saved 6,000 Jews to seek UNESCO listing
The hometown of Chiune Sugihara, known as "Japan's Schindler" for having helped about 6,000 Jews escape Nazi persecution during World War II, said Thursday it will seek to have his records added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register. During World War II, Sugihara issued ...
National Jun 17, 2014
Book tells of Jews' escape via Japan
by Keiji Hirano
A former official of the semigovernmental Japan National Tourism Organization has published an English-language version of his research on Jews who escaped via Japan from wartime persecution by the Nazis. Akira Kitade, 70, initially published the book in Japanese two years ago, based on a ...