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Chiune Sugihara
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Japanese diplomat, Righteous Among the Nations (1900-1986)
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Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat who worked in Kaunas. He was born on January 1, 1900, and died on July 31, 1986, in Kamakura due to cardiovascular disease. Sugihara was educated at Waseda University and spoke Japanese, Russian, English, and German. He was a follower of Shinto and had four children.
He received the Raoul Wallenberg Award, the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, and the Righteous Among the Nations. His nicknames included Sempo, Japanese Schindler, and Le Schindler japonais. Sugihara is buried in Kamakura.
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- Early-warning signals for critical transitions
· 2009 · cited 4,091x
- Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems
· 2012 · cited 2,212x
- Japanese Society for Cancer of the Colon and Rectum (JSCCR) guidelines 2019 for the treatment of colorectal cancer
· 2019 · cited 1,662x
- Nonlinear forecasting as a way of distinguishing chaos from measurement error in time series
· 1990 · cited 1,541x
- Trastuzumab Deruxtecan in Previously Treated HER2-Positive Gastric Cancer
· 2020 · cited 1,230x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1900-01-01 ) 1 January 1900, Kozuchi, Gifu , Japan
- Died
- 31 July 1986 (1986-07-31) (aged 86), Kamakura, Kanagawa , Japan
- Resting place
- Kamakura Cemetery
- Other names
- "Sempo", Sergei Pavlovich Sugihara
- Occupation
- Vice-consul for the Japanese Empire in Lithuania
- Known for
- Rescue of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust
- Spouses
- Klaudia Semionovna Apollonova ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1918 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1935 ) Yukiko Kikuchi ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1936 )
- Awards
- Order of the Sacred Treasure , 5th Class (1944) Righteous Among the Nations (1984) Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland , 3rd Class (1996) Order of Polonia Restituta , 2nd Class (2007)
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Encyclopedic overview
Chiune Sugihara (杉原 千畝, Sugihara Chiune; 1 January 1900 – 31 July 1986) was a Japanese diplomat who served as vice-consul for the Japanese Empire in Kaunas, Lithuania. During the Second World War, Sugihara helped thousands of Jews flee Europe by issuing transit visas to them so that they could travel through Japanese territory, risking his career and the lives of his family. The fleeing Jews were refugees from German-occupied Western Poland and Soviet-occupied Eastern Poland, as well as residents of Lithuania.
Lithuania declared the year 2020 as "The Year of Chiune Sugihara" in his honor. Today, the estimated number of descendants of those who received "Sugihara visas" ranges between 40,000 and 100,000.
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