Japanese Forces

Chiune Sugihara

My father enlisted in 1937 and was at Hickam when the Japanese Attacked Hickam and Pearl Harbor. The things they Americans and Allies experienced and the cruel treatment by the Japanese would almost lead one to wonder if there was a kind or caring Japanese Soldier. Then I read this story a Japanese Diplomat wrote THOUSANDS OF VISAS AND MAY HAVE SAVED AS MANY AS 10,000 Jews from the death Camps. He was called back to Japan and wrote signed MORE at the train station. It confirms there are good and bad folks in all our cultures and nations. Chiune "Sempo" Sugihara (杉原 千畝 Sugihara Chiune, 1 January 1900 – 31 July 1986) was a Japanese diplomat who served as Vice-Consul for the Empire of Japan in Lithuania. During World War II, he helped between 3,000 and 6,000 Jews leave the country by issuing transit visas so that they could travel to Japanese territory, risking his career and his family's lives. The Jews who escaped were refugees from German-occupied Western Poland or Soviet-occupied Eastern Poland, as well as residents of Lithuania. In 1985, Israel named him to the Righteous Among the Nations for his actions, the only Japanese national to be so honored. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiune_Sugihara