Jewish Japanese history

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Chapters: Chiune Sugihara, Shanghai Ghetto, Jewish settlement in Imperial Japan, History of the Jews in Japan, History of the Jews in Kobe, A Jewish Girl in Shanghai, Abraham Kaufman, Norihiro Yasue, Seishiro Itagaki, Yoshisuke Aikawa, Koreshige Inuzuka, An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus, Visas and Virtue, Kiichiro Higuchi, Simon Kaspé, Mir yeshiva. Excerpt: Chiune Sugihara Sugihara Chiune, 1 January 1900 ¿ 31 July 1986) was a Japanese diplomat who served as Vice-Consul for the Japanese Empire in Lithuania. During World War II, he helped several thousand Jews leave the country by issuing transit visas to Jewish refugees so that they could travel to Japan. Most of the Jews who escaped were refugees from German-occupied Poland or residents of Lithuania. Sugihara wrote travel visas that facilitated the escape of more than 6,000 Jewish refugees to Japanese territory, risking his career and his family's lives. In 1985, Israel honored him as Righteous Among the Nations for his actions. Chiune Sugihara was born January 1, 1900, in Yaotsu, a rural area in Gifu Prefecture of the Chubu region to a middle-class father, Yoshimi Sugihara (¿¿¿¿ Sugihara Yoshimi), and Yatsu Sugihara (¿¿¿¿ Sugihara Yatsu), a samurai-class mother. He was the second son among five boys and one girl. In 1912, he graduated with top honors from Furuwatari Elementary School, and entered Daigo Chugaku founded by Aichi prefecture (now Zuiryo high school), a combined junior and senior high school. His father wanted him to follow in his footsteps as a physician, but Chiune deliberately failed the entrance exam by writing only his name on the exam papers. Instead, he entered Waseda University in 1918 and majored in English language. In 1919, he passed the Foreign Ministry Scholarship exam. The Japanese Foreign Ministry recruited him and assigned him to Harbin, China, where he also studied the Russian and German languages and later became an expert on Russian affairs. Former Japanese consulate in KaunasIn 1939, he became a vice-consul of the Japanese Consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania. His other duty was to report on Soviet and German troop movements. Sugihara is said to have cooperated with Polish intelligence, as part of a bigger Japanese-Polish cooperative plan. After the Soviet takeover of Lithuania in 1940, many Jewish refugees from Poland (Polish Jews) as well a