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Sugihara Chiune : the duty and humanity of an intelligence officer
Sugihara Chiune. English
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Sugihara Chiune was a diplomat who saved several thousand lives from the Nazis and U.S.S.R. during the Second World War by issuing refugees Japanese transit visas. He was an intelligence profession...
Sugihara Chiune was a diplomat who saved several thousand lives from the Nazis and U.S.S.R. during the Second World War by issuing refugees Japanese transit visas. He was an intelligence professional of rare caliber who, aware of the crisis confronting his nation early on, maintained a precarious balancing act as he traveled around war-torn Europe.
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- Creator
- Shiraishi Masaaki ; translated by Gaynor Sekimori
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- Language
- English
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Sekimori, Gaynor, translator
関守, ゲイノー
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Sekimori, Gaynor, translator
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- First English edition
- Tokyo, Japan : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC), 2021
- Physical Details
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- 211 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9784866581743, 4866581743
- OCLC
- on1246723261
- Originally published in Japanese as Chōhō no tensai Sugihara Chiune in 2011 by Shinchosha. Revised and expanded in 2015 as Sugihara Chiune: jōhō ni kaketa gaikōkan. 2015 version is the basis of this translation.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-203) and index.
- The making of an intelligence officer -- The Manchurian Government Foreign Affairs Department and the Chinese Eastern Railway -- The enigma of the Soviet visa refusal -- To the shores of the Baltic -- The Lithuanian intelligence network -- Solving the mystery of the visas for life -- Prague -- The true value of an outstanding diplomat -- Epilogue : regrets of an intelligence officer
Subjects
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Biography.
- Diplomats -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
- Japan -- Foreign relations -- 1912-1945.
- Sugihara, Chiune, 1900-1986.
杉原千畝 1900-1986
- Sugihara, Chiune, 1900-1986 -- Travel -- Europe, Eastern.
杉原千畝 1900-1986 -- Travel -- Europe, Eastern.