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

First English edition.

Tokyo, Japan : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC), 2021.

211 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

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.

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.

English

May 21, 2021

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-203) and index.