Nazis leaders of Germany in the 1930s decided to remove the Jews to build the utopia for the Germans. Finally they resorted to Holocaust which was the murdering of as many as six million Jews by the Nazis. 

  Seeing this tragedy, a man saved thousands of Jews. He was Sugihara Chiune who was the Japanese consul to Lithuania in 1940. He did not stop issuing them until he left Lithuania. He had to resign from the diplomatic service after he returned to Japan because he continued to issue visas for Jewish refugees without permission from Foreign Ministry in Japan. After his retirement, he did not lead a happy life. But after the war, he received Israel’s highest honor in 1985.   

  He prepared to risk not only himself but also his family when he decided to save Jews. I respect his courageous behavior as Japanese. I think that those who were saved by him have never forgotten his action.