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Source: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/06/08/national/history/israel-names-street-after-diplomat-sugihara-wwii-issuer-of-visas-for-life-to-jews/#.V1et201Jk5s

Israel Names Street after Japanese Diplomat Who Saved Jews in WWII

(Japan Times) A ceremony was held in Netanya, Israel, on Tuesday to name a street after the late Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, who as vice consul at the Japanese Consulate in Lithuania issued transit visas to thousands of Jewish people during World War II, saving them from Nazi persecution. "It's such an honor. I wish my father was here," said Sugihara's fourth son, Nobuki, 67, who met with 50 local residents who survived thanks to his father.

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