In recent years, the Lithuania-based diplomat who issued thousands of visas to Jews became a household name - but is his lionization part of a familiar post-Holocaust phenomenon?

The story of the Japanese consulate worker who saved thousands of Jewish refugees in Lithuania in 1940 is now being told in concert halls around the globe - and in NYC on April 19

A Jerusalem ceremony highlights the ever-widening impact of the only Japanese citizen honored as Righteous Among the Nations... and the folly of obtuse adherence to bureaucracy

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Founding ToI editor David Horovitz and Startup Israel editor Ricky Ben-David discuss massive capital-raising rounds, cybersecurity threats and drones that deliver

Chiune Sugihara, consul-general in Kovno, issued over 2,000 visas in breach of Japanese policy; his son Nobuki addresses event, having received last-minute visa after ToI report