The Seimas opens the exhibition commemorating Chiune Sugihara’s 120th birthday anniversary and the 80th anniversary of Sugihara’s “visas for life” in the Gallery of the Defenders of Freedom, Building 1 of the Seimas, on Thursday 20 February 2020, […]
10月10日(木)、リトアニア国会(セイマス)は来たる2020年を、年間を通じて「杉原千畝記念の年」とする事を宣言しました。この決議は、2020年がリトアニア・カウナスの旧日本領事館に在勤した杉原千畝元副領事(1939-40年在勤)が6000人以上のユダヤ人難民の命を救ったとされる、いわゆる「命のビザ」の発給を決断してからちょうど80年目の記念の年に当たる事にちなんで採択されました。また2020年は、杉原氏の生誕120周年の記念の年でもあります […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, currently visiting Japan, on Thursday honored the memory of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara who rescued Jews from the Holocaust, and also paid respect to victims of the Hiroshima atomic bombing. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is leaving for Japan on Monday and will seek to strengthen trade and business ties. […]
The youngest son of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust, discovered in the Lithuanian Central State Archives (LCSA) that some of the so-called “visas for life” issued by his father were forgeries. […]
Lithuania’s second-biggest city of Kaunas is launching on Monday a week of events to commemorate Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Lithuanian Jews from the Holocaust during World War Two. […]
Visiting King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will on Friday unveil in Kaunas, Lithuanian second-largest city, a symbolic light monument to Dutch diplomat Jan Zwartendijk who saved Jews during WWII. […]
A light installation is planned in Lithuania’s second city Kaunas to honor Jan Zwartendijk, honorary consul of the Netherlands who rescued Jews in the interwar period. […]
Sugihara Foundation – Diplomats for Life has named Lithuanian writer and playwright Marius Ivaškevičius as the Person of Tolerance of 2017, the Vytautas Magnus University said on Friday. […]
Chiune Sugihara’s legacy continues to live on, reverberating in new culturally significant and socially beneficial ways. […]
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday went to Lithuania’s second city Kaunas on Sunday to pay tribute to the memory of World War II-era diplomat Chiune Sugihara who rescued Jews from the Holocaust. […]
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is coming to Lithuania this weekend to meet with the country’s top officials and pay tribute to the memory of war-time Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara who rescued Jews in Kaunas. […]
Lithuania is constantly defending itself against accusations or dubious statements that Lithuanians collaborated with the Nazis in the Holocaust. At the same time it’s usually in the archives of historians where information is discovered about Lithuanians who, before anybody else, were opening up a path for refugees who were Jewish and of other nationalities, Lietuvos Žinos writes. […]
On April 25, 2017, the Sugihara Group for Kaunas-Japan Relations Development was established. Soon to be approved by decree of the Mayor of Kaunas, the main purpose of the group is to bring together a wide range of organisations and Kaunas residents who together contribute towards positive relations between Kaunas and Japan. […]
Though unseasonably low temperatures and rain have dampened the springtime mood in Lithuania, many consider the blooming cherry blossoms at the Chiune Sugihara park in Vilnius to be a sign that spring has arrived in Lithuania. […]
Vilnius residents were greeted with a long-awaited sight on Tuesday as the Japanese cherry blossoms near the Baltasis Tiltas (White Bridge) over the Neris river bloomed for the first time this season. […]
Businessman Valdas Balčiūnas has been named the 2015 Person of Tolerance in Lithuania, the public organization “Sugihara Foundation – Diplomats for Life” told BNS on Saturday. […]
Walking through Tokyo Station on a weekday morning with tens of thousands of people leaves the impression of a well orchestrated ballet where the dancers manage to find their way through what looks like a labyrinth of train lines, subway, shopping areas and high speed train lines. Most of these people are the backbone of the innovative Japanese economy. […]
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