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Chiune Sugihara

1900 - 1986

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Chiune Sugihara is the 22nd most popular diplomat, the 112th most popular biography from Japan (up from 118th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Diplomat.

Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat who helped Jews escape from the Holocaust by issuing visas to them.

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Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Chiune Sugihara ranks 22 out of 90. Before him are Madeleine Albright, Lucien Bonaparte, Alva Myrdal, Folke Bernadotte, Jean Kennedy Smith, and Chaim Herzog. After him are Hasekura Tsunenaga, Viktor Chernomyrdin, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, George F. Kennan, William J. Burns, and Alfonso García Robles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Chiune Sugihara ranks 42. Before him are Kurt Weill, Pak Hon-yong, Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, Karl Wolff, Arno Breker, and Choe Yong-gon. After him are Anna Seghers, Jiro Miyake, Edward Stettinius Jr., Walther Wenck, Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, and Julien Green. Among people deceased in 1986, Chiune Sugihara ranks 30. Before him are Leonid Kantorovich, Georges Dumézil, Celâl Bayar, Jaroslav Seifert, Harold Macmillan, and Fritz Albert Lipmann. After him are Erich Koch, Benny Goodman, Stanley Rous, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Samora Machel, and Roy Cohn.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Chiune Sugihara ranks 112 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Sakuramachi (1720), Emperor Nakamikado (1702), Leo Esaki (1925), Shigeru Ishiba (1957), Emperor Higashiyama (1675), and Tameo Ide (1908). After him are Hasekura Tsunenaga (1571), Joan Fontaine (1917), Yasuo Fukuda (1936), Benkei (1155), Prince Shōtoku (574), and Eisaku Satō (1901).

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Among DIPLOMATS In Japan

Among diplomats born in Japan, Chiune Sugihara ranks 1. After him are Hasekura Tsunenaga (1571), Yukiya Amano (1947), Saburō Kurusu (1886), and Yasushi Akashi (1931).

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