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Chiuna Sugihara: The Japanese diplomat who proved 'even one person can change the world'

Even 125 years after his birth, Japanese diplomat Chiuna Sugihara, who saved thousands of people during the Holocaust, is far from forgotten.

|ByALEX WINSTON
CHIUNE SUGIHARA, the 'Japanese Schindler.'
Japanese diplomat Sugihara Chiune, known as "Japanese Oskar Schindler."

Grapevine October 20, 2022: Honor diplomat who saved Jews during Holocaust

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
SPEAKER OF the Knesset MK Mickey Levy, Chairman of AEV Zvi Neta and Japanese Ambassador to Israel Mizushima Koichi attend the opening of ‘Time Tunnel - Japan and the Jews’ at the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art in Haifa last week.

Suzuki importer opens exhibition to commemorate Israel-Japan ties

Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy, the ambassadors of Japan and Lithuania and the museum CEO were among the guests of the Israel-Japan exhibition.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
FROM LEFT, Yoshihiko Higuchi, Cultural and Press Attache Japanese Embassy; Avraham Duvdevani, World Chairman KKL-JNF, Nobuki Sugihara , Lina Antanaviciene, Ambassador of Lithuania, and Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, deputy mayor of Jerusalem raise their glasses in a toast at the corner stone ceremony of the

Holocaust hero Chiune Sugihara's son inaugurates park in father's honor

DIASPORA AFFAIRS: Not only is Jerusalem honoring Sugihari, he said, but Sugihari is honoring Jerusalem.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

Family of Jewish man Chiune Sugihara saved from Holocaust gives tribute

A stranger who saved thousands from the Holocaust; a lost visa and a battle for its ownership; a search for descendants – and a memoir.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021ByLINDA ROYAL
Chiune Sugihara with his wife Yukiko in his office at the Japanese consulate in Bucharest published in ‘Visas for Life: The Remarkable Story of Chiune & Yukiko Sugihara and the Rescue of Thousands of Jews

Son of 'Japanese Schindler' dedicates memorial in Jerusalem

Roughly 6,000 Jews were saved by Chiune Sugihara, Japanese ambassador to Lithuania in 1940, who granted them visas to travel to Japan and escape the Nazis.

FEBRUARY 16, 2019ByZACK EVANS
Nobuki Sugihara, son of Japanese diplomat, Chiune Sugihara (depicted in black and white picture), who helped saved thousands of Lithuanian Jews in World War 2, speaks during a street-naming ceremony in honour of his father in Netanya, Israel June 7, 2016.