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Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day - and a fine time to commemorate the story of Sugihara Chiune, the Japanese diplomat went against the dictates of his own government in order to issue Jewish refugees with visas to Japan - helping to save 6000 lives in the process.

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“Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day - and a fine time to commemorate the story of Sugihara Chiune, the Japanese diplomat went against the dictates of his own government in order to issue Jewish refugees with visas to Japan - helping to save 6000 lives in the process.”

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Show threadloudpenitentJan 28, 2023
I've always wondered what Chiune's political positions were relative to the rest of Imperial Japan. His humanitarian impulses would seem to suggest a conflict with the party line that justified atrocious brutality regularly.