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Chiune Sugihara

Nobuki Sugihara and family at a ceremony honoring his late father Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania in 1940 who issued transit visas that saved thousands of Jews (Times of Israel)
August 1, 2023, 8:42 pm
Researchers say Japan exaggerated the story of ‘Japanese Schindler’ Chiune Sugihara
In recent years, the Lithuania-based diplomat who issued thousands of visas to Jews became a household name – but is his lionization part of a familiar post-Holocaust phenomenon?
By Jordyn Haime
Rescuer Chiune Sugihara as the consul of Japan in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940. (Courtesy Yad Vashem Righteous Among the Nations Archive)
April 19, 2023, 3:36 am
Musical tribute to ‘Japanese Schindler’ Chiune Sugihara has US debut in Carnegie Hall
The story of the Japanese consulate worker who saved thousands of Jewish refugees in Lithuania in 1940 is now being told in concert halls around the globe – and in NYC on April 19
By Rich Tenorio
The third out of eight phases of the National Drone Initiative's pilot project to create a national drone network, where amongst others the drones would be able to deliver food and medicine through an application, in Tel Aviv, on October 11, 2021 (Photo by FLASH90)
October 14, 2021, 2:53 pm
Daily Briefing Oct. 14 – Tech successes notched, including beer-carrying drones
ToI editor David Horovitz and Startup Israel editor Ricky Ben-David discuss a WWII diplomat’s courage, massive capital-raising rounds, cybersecurity threats and drones that deliver
By ToI Staff
Nobuki Sugihara and family at a ceremony honoring his late father Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania in 1940 who issued transit visas that saved thousands of Jews (Times of Israel)
October 14, 2021, 1:28 pm
81 years later, Chiune Sugihara’s humanity continues to enable new lives
A Jerusalem ceremony highlights the ever-widening impact of the only Japanese citizen honored as Righteous Among the Nations… and the folly of obtuse adherence to bureaucracy
By David Horovitz
Nobuki Sugihara addresses participants at a ceremony in Jerusalem's Kiryat Yovel neighborhood dedicating Chiune Sugihara Square to his father, the WWII Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews when serving as consul-general in Kovno, Lithuania. (Times of Israel)
October 11, 2021, 7:09 pm
Jerusalem dedicates square to Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews
Chiune Sugihara, consul-general in Kovno, issued over 2,000 visas in breach of Japanese policy; his son Nobuki addresses event, having received last-minute visa after ToI report
By David Horovitz
Haredi students pose wih Bahraini education official Mohammed Saleh in the Old City of Jerusalem, October 6, 2021 (Lazar Berman, Times of Israel)
October 10, 2021, 2:40 pm
Daily Briefing Oct. 10 – Bahraini visitors join prayer at Western Wall
Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman highlights a Bahraini group’s visit and Japanese diplomacy, as ToI editor David Horovitz discusses Lebanon, Ron Arad, Cyprus and soccer
By ToI Staff
Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked speaks at the Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum in Japan, the first visit by an Israeli minister (courtesy)
October 10, 2021, 1:22 am
Interior Minister Shaked: Sugihara a hero to Jews; I intervened after ToI story
Ayelet Shaked gets involved personally to enable son of Japanese envoy who saved thousands from Nazis to enter Israel for ceremony on Monday
By Lazar Berman
Chiune Sugihara, Kaunas, Lithuania, 1940 (USHMM, courtesy of Hiroki Sugihara)
October 8, 2021, 12:51 pm
After intervention, son of WWII Japanese envoy who rescued Jews gets Israel visa
Israeli officials help to overcome COVID-19 bureaucracy, enabling Chiune Sugihara’s son Nobuki to attend Jerusalem ceremony naming square for Righteous Among Nations father
By Lazar Berman
Japanese diplomat Sugihara Chiune, who helped save the lives of thousands of Jews as the Imperial Consul to Lithuania in World War II. (Public domain via Wikimedia Commons)
October 7, 2021, 8:23 pm
Israel denies entry to son of WWII Japanese envoy who saved thousands of Jews
Organizers say Chiune Sugihara’s son Nobuki simply refused to submit proper COVID-19 forms to attend Jerusalem ceremony naming square for his Righteous Gentile father
By Lazar Berman
This handout photo provided by Chiune Sugihara Memorial Museum, shows a working room in Chiune Sugihara memorial museum in Kaunas, Lithuania, May 12, 2020 (Chiune Sugihara Memorial Museum via AP)
August 1, 2020, 11:31 am
Japan bails out Lithuania museum honoring Japanese diplomat and Holocaust hero
Memorial recounts the story of Chiune Sugihara, who issued transit visas to nearly 6,000 Jewish refugees without his government’s approval, allowing them to escape the Nazis
By LIUDAS DAPKUS
Nobuki Sugihara, second from right, with Chaim Chesler, in blue shirt, and guests of Limmud FSU Minsk at the village of Mir, Belarus, during an unveiling of a plaque for Chiune Sugihara, May 2, 2019. (Boris Brumin/via JTA)
May 23, 2019, 6:08 pm
Holocaust hero Chiune Sugihara’s son sets record straight on his father’s story
Nobuki Sugihara says he’s not out to glorify his father — and proves it by debunking myths and showing that human kindness, not ideology, prompted him to save thousands of lives
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Chaim Chesler, left, and Nobuki Sugihara during a Holocaust commemoration event at Mir, Belarus, May 2, 2019. (Limmud FSU/Boris Brumin)
May 3, 2019, 8:58 pm
A Holocaust rescue is remembered in Belarus with the son of Chiune Sugihara
Japan’s consul in Lithuania gave life-saving transit visas to 700 Mir Yeshiva students and more than 2,000 additional Jews against the orders of his superiors
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: Housing construction in Beit Shemesh in May 2012. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
February 14, 2019, 10:16 am
Israel’s memorial forest to ‘Japanese Schindler’ was razed to build apartments
Son of Chiune Sugihara disappointed to find no trace of the grove in Beit Shemesh dedicated to his father; KKL-JNF apologizes and vows to replant
By ToI Staff
Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite (2nd-R), King of the Netherlands Willem-Alexander (C), Rob Zwartendijk (5th-R) and his wife Edith (4th-R) and the Mayor of Kaunas Visvaldas Matijosaitis (R) attend a ceremony to unveil an installation to honor Dutch diplomat Jan Zwartendijk, credited with saving over 2,000 Jews from the Holocaust during WWII, on June 15, 2018, in Kaunas, Lithuania. (AFP Photo/Petras Malukas)
October 18, 2018, 6:22 pm
Dutch government apologizes over diplomat punished for saving Jews in WWII
King of Netherlands, minister speak to family of Jan Zwartendijk, who was reprimanded after issuing unauthorized visas to more than 2,000 Jews
By ToI Staff and JTA
The endorsements of Chiune Sugihara and Jan Zwartendijk, the Japanese and Dutch consuls, respectively, in Kovno, Lithuania, appear on the Leidimas, or travel document, that allowed Isaac Lewin and his family to escape Lithuania in 1940. (Courtesy of Alyza D. Lewin)
October 10, 2018, 6:18 am
Dutch diplomat was punished for saving Jews in the Holocaust, new book reveals
Jan Zwartendijk, honorary consul of the Netherlands in Lithuania, rescued more than 2,000 Jews, together with Japanese envoy Chiune Sugihara
By JTA
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