TY  - BOOK
AB  - "Sugihara Chiune was a diplomat who saved more than several thousand lives from the Nazis and U.S.S.R. during the second World War by issuing them with Japanese transit visas. Why was he able to continue handing out these "visas for life"? The man behind these actions was in fact 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 closely analyzing the global situation. The author, who has spent more than thirty years studying Sugihara, describes here for the first time the real person behind the diplomat and the truth behind the miraculous issue of those visas, based on his close study of documents in the voluminous archive of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of other historical sources. This nonfiction work is the tour de force of the Foreign Ministry's preeminent "treasure hunter."" --
AU  - Shiraishi, Masaaki,
AU  - Sekimori, Gaynor,
CN  - D804.66.S84
CN  - D804.66.S84
ET  - First English edition.
ID  - 1373738
KW  - Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
KW  - Diplomats
LA  - eng
N1  - 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.
N2  - "Sugihara Chiune was a diplomat who saved more than several thousand lives from the Nazis and U.S.S.R. during the second World War by issuing them with Japanese transit visas. Why was he able to continue handing out these "visas for life"? The man behind these actions was in fact 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 closely analyzing the global situation. The author, who has spent more than thirty years studying Sugihara, describes here for the first time the real person behind the diplomat and the truth behind the miraculous issue of those visas, based on his close study of documents in the voluminous archive of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of other historical sources. This nonfiction work is the tour de force of the Foreign Ministry's preeminent "treasure hunter."" --
SN  - 9784866581743
SN  - 4866581743
T1  - Sugihara Chiune :the duty and humanity of an intelligence officer /
TI  - Sugihara Chiune :the duty and humanity of an intelligence officer /
ER  -