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Chiune Sugihara

1900 - 1986

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Chiune Sugihara (杉原 千畝, Sugihara Chiune, 1 January 1900 – 31 July 1986) was a Japanese diplomat who served as vice-consul for the Japanese Empire in Kaunas, Lithuania. During the Second World War, Sugihara helped thousands of Jews flee Europe by issuing transit visas to them so that they could travel through Japanese territory, risking his job and the lives of his family. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chiune Sugihara has received more than 2,004,803 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Chiune Sugihara is the 19th most popular diplomat (down from 18th in 2019), the 90th most popular biography from Japan (down from 89th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Diplomat.

Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat who helped Jews escape from the Holocaust by issuing visas to them.

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  • 46

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  • 4.16

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  • 4.06

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Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Chiune Sugihara ranks 19 out of 52Before him are Lucien Bonaparte, Folke Bernadotte, Mohamed ElBaradei, John R. Bolton, Alva Myrdal, and Hasekura Tsunenaga. After him are Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Chaim Herzog, George F. Kennan, Viktor Chernomyrdin, Megasthenes, and Thomas Klestil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Chiune Sugihara ranks 32Before him are Eyvind Johnson, Jan Oort, Thomas Wolfe, Richard Kuhn, Edith Frank, and Mahavatar Babaji. After him are W. Edwards Deming, Karl Wolff, Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, Ragnar Granit, Choe Yong-gon, and Pak Hon-yong. Among people deceased in 1986, Chiune Sugihara ranks 28Before him are Fritz Albert Lipmann, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Benny Goodman, Erich Koch, Edward Adelbert Doisy, and James Rainwater. After him are Jaroslav Seifert, Minoru Yamasaki, Georges Dumézil, L. Ron Hubbard, Leonid Kantorovich, and Samora Machel.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Chiune Sugihara ranks 90 out of 6,048Before him are Dōgen (1200), Akira Toriyama (1955), Empress Go-Sakuramachi (1740), Syukuro Manabe (1931), Hasekura Tsunenaga (1571), and Benkei (1155). After him are Emperor Itoku (-553), Masaru Emoto (1943), Joe Hisaishi (1950), Fumimaro Konoe (1891), Ishida Mitsunari (1559), and Emperor Kōan (-427).

Among DIPLOMATS In Japan

Among diplomats born in Japan, Chiune Sugihara ranks 2Before him are Hasekura Tsunenaga (1571). After him are Yukiya Amano (1947) and Yasushi Akashi (1931).