Bill Bradley details Chiune Sugihara's heroism in award-winning radio documentary
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 ...
Museum devoted to 'visas for life' diplomat Chiune Sugihara to open in Tokyo
A museum based on the life of Chiune Sugihara (1900-1986), a Japanese diplomat who issued transit visas to thousands of Jewish people during World War II to help them escape from Nazi persecution, is set to open Saturday in the Yaesu district of Tokyo. Items ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Siblings retrace role of Japanese diplomat in mother's escape from Holocaust
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 ...
Documentary sheds light on Japanese who helped Jews escape Holocaust
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 ...
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.
Chiune Sugihara: man of conscience
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 ...
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 ...
Book tells of Jews' escape via Japan
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 ...
Tsuruga: truly a 'port of humanity'
The man in the black-and-white photograph wore a dark jacket with wide lapels. His hair was cut short and parted to one side. His eyes were directed toward the camera as if he were looking directly at me. I recognized him immediately: Chiune Sugihara, ...
