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(★)(Translated by Gaynor Sekimori／ 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. 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´.／ ◆SHIRAISHI Masaaki was born in Tokyo in 1963, he earned a master´s degree in history from the Graduate School of Humanities, Sophia University. He has worked for the Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1989, beginning while still a graduate student. He specializes in Japanese diplomatic history and intelligence systems, with a particular focus on SUGIHARA Chiune, whom he has been researching for more than thirty years.／ His published books in Japanese include ´Puchaachin : Nihonjin ga ichiban suki na Roshiajin (Putyatin : Japan´s favorite Russian)´, ´Rokusennin no inochi o sukue! Gaikookan Sugihara Chiune (Save six thousand lives! The diplomat Sugihara Chiune)´ and ´Sensoo to choohoo gaikoo : Sugihara Chiune tachi no jidai (War and intelligence diplomacy : The times of Sugihara Chiune and his superiors)´.) |
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