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Once upon a time many,many years back in Tokyo Japan, visiting friends and family..I saw a JTB ( japan travel bureau's ) tourist bus full of sight seers, it was the Hato Bus line. I thought it will be fun in joining one of these tours mainly aimed to foreign tourist trekking abouts Tokyo sceanery and attraction locales. So went from the trendy Shibuya ward on foot to Shinjuku area to catch one of these Hato Bus. I didn't need to wait not too long to board one of the Buses. Once aboard, I went to the 2nd deck part and there were a bunch of westerners and chatting...Chatting in a language not too familiar to me.? Were they talking Arabic or was it in Hebrew? It happened to be Old and younger Israeli and mostly Europen/AmericanJews visiting Tokyo.
I rapidly engaged in conversation with one of the delegate to ask him how is Tokyo, are you guys enjoying the sight seeing trip, etc..They were visiting Tokyo to gather up in the residency place of ex-Japanese consul that was stationed in Lithuania during the WW II, whom saved their lives by issuing them with exit visas to escape from the Germans and Russians, whom were apprehending these Jews and if caught, they would be killed because they were Jews. They all came together, well not all of the 6k Jews, to show their appretiation to the Japanese consul, whom their lives owed...
They said, the group on this Bus, were Jews dispersed all over Europe,the Americas and elsewhere and still living and enjoying life thanks to this Japanese consul back then defiantly disobeying then foreign minister's denial to issue granting visas to the Lithunean Jews in despair.. He was their saving Angel so this old men said to me...Mr S. Sugiyama, the noble men full of humanitarianism ,single handedly issued more than 6k visas to the Jews back then and helped them escape from the certain death the Germans and the Russians army were to excercise on them.
http://www.jewishvir... ... ihara.html
Permission Denied, saz the Imperial government of Japan.
Chiune Sugihara wired his government three times for permission to issue visas to the Jewish refugees. Three times he was denied. The Japanese Consul in Tokyo wired:
CONCERNING TRANSIT VISAS REQUESTED PREVIOUSLY STOP ADVISE ABSOLUTELY NOT TO BE ISSUED ANY TRAVELER NOT HOLDING FIRM END VISA WITH GUARANTEED DEPARTURE EX JAPAN STOP NO EXCEPTIONS STOP NO FURTHER INQUIRIES EXPECTED STOP
(SIGNED) K TANAKA FOREIGN MINISTRY TOKYO
Visas For Life
After repeatedly receiving negative responses from Tokyo, the Consul discussed the situation with his wife and children. Sugihara had a difficult decision to make. He was a man who was brought up in the strict and traditional discipline of the Japanese. He was a career diplomat, who suddenly had to make a very difficult choice. On one had, he was bound by the traditional obedience he had been taught all his life. On the other hand, he was a samurai who had been told to help those who were in need. He knew that if he defied the orders of his superiors, he might be fired and disgraced, and would probably never work for the Japanese government again. This would result in extreme financial hardship for his family in the future.
Chiune and his wife Yukiko even feared for their lives and the lives of their children, but in the end, could only follow their consciences. The visas would be signed.
HybridAmbassador.
AKA in the States as, Rickey-San!
I rapidly engaged in conversation with one of the delegate to ask him how is Tokyo, are you guys enjoying the sight seeing trip, etc..They were visiting Tokyo to gather up in the residency place of ex-Japanese consul that was stationed in Lithuania during the WW II, whom saved their lives by issuing them with exit visas to escape from the Germans and Russians, whom were apprehending these Jews and if caught, they would be killed because they were Jews. They all came together, well not all of the 6k Jews, to show their appretiation to the Japanese consul, whom their lives owed...
They said, the group on this Bus, were Jews dispersed all over Europe,the Americas and elsewhere and still living and enjoying life thanks to this Japanese consul back then defiantly disobeying then foreign minister's denial to issue granting visas to the Lithunean Jews in despair.. He was their saving Angel so this old men said to me...Mr S. Sugiyama, the noble men full of humanitarianism ,single handedly issued more than 6k visas to the Jews back then and helped them escape from the certain death the Germans and the Russians army were to excercise on them.
http://www.jewishvir... ... ihara.html
Permission Denied, saz the Imperial government of Japan.
Chiune Sugihara wired his government three times for permission to issue visas to the Jewish refugees. Three times he was denied. The Japanese Consul in Tokyo wired:
CONCERNING TRANSIT VISAS REQUESTED PREVIOUSLY STOP ADVISE ABSOLUTELY NOT TO BE ISSUED ANY TRAVELER NOT HOLDING FIRM END VISA WITH GUARANTEED DEPARTURE EX JAPAN STOP NO EXCEPTIONS STOP NO FURTHER INQUIRIES EXPECTED STOP
(SIGNED) K TANAKA FOREIGN MINISTRY TOKYO
Visas For Life
After repeatedly receiving negative responses from Tokyo, the Consul discussed the situation with his wife and children. Sugihara had a difficult decision to make. He was a man who was brought up in the strict and traditional discipline of the Japanese. He was a career diplomat, who suddenly had to make a very difficult choice. On one had, he was bound by the traditional obedience he had been taught all his life. On the other hand, he was a samurai who had been told to help those who were in need. He knew that if he defied the orders of his superiors, he might be fired and disgraced, and would probably never work for the Japanese government again. This would result in extreme financial hardship for his family in the future.
Chiune and his wife Yukiko even feared for their lives and the lives of their children, but in the end, could only follow their consciences. The visas would be signed.
HybridAmbassador.
AKA in the States as, Rickey-San!
