Sugihara Chiune : the duty and humanity of an intelligence officer / Shiraishi Masaaki ; translated by Gaynor Sekimori.

Sugihara Chiune. English

First English edition.

9784866581743 (hardbound)
4866581743 (hardbound)

Tokyo, Japan : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2021.

©2021

English

211 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

D804.66.S84 S5513 2021

"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."" -- Provided by publisher

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.

Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)

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