Consul General Uyama Joins Chiune Sugihara Discussion at Stanford University

On Thursday, February 21, Consul General Tomochika Uyama attended and participated in a discussion on Chiune Sugihara, jointly co-hosted by the Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco, the Consulate General of Israel to the Pacific Northwest, and Hillel at Stanford. In his remarks, Consul General Uyama briefly told the story of Chiune Sugihara, Japanese Vice Consul to Lithuania, who saved thousands of Jewish lives by issuing transit visas during World War Two. He also described accounts of Jewish evacuees being warmly received by the people of Tsuruga, the port city they landed in after traveling by ship from the Soviet Union. During the discussion, children of Sugihara Survivors spoke about their fathers’ experiences and how they were saved by Mr. Sugihara.